Cameron McKay

If you’ve ever needed to do more complex animations than fades and slides, then you’ve probably encountered the jQuery animate function. The animate function allows you quite a bit more flexibility than just using fadeOut or slideDown. In fact, the oft-used fades and slides simply wrap calls to animate.

If you’ve ever looked at the jQuery animate docs at api.jquery.com you might have noticed that one of the optional arguments you can define is step which is defined as:

A function to be called after each step of the animation.

…and that’s it. If you search for “step” on the page, you won’t see another mention of it.

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I’ve said previously that JSS is a lot like CSS. What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.

If that blurb were written about JSS, it’d sound a little like this:

JavaScript Style Sheets (JSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) and functionality of a document written in HTML.

In this article, we will look at the syntactic structure of a JSS stylesheet. We will also talk briefly about including JSS stylesheets in your HTML documents.

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Ever wanted to make an image rollover, but you don’t know JavaScript? In this tutorial, we show you how JSS, a CSS-like language, makes this a breeze.

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Some nights, as I lay awake in bed, trying to sleep, I think about Arrayzing workflows.  Lately, I’ve been thinking of the different ways users might use Arrayzing. In particular, I’ve been thinking of how a user could edit a subset of elements in a zing without disturbing other elements. The result of this thoughtstream is a new Arrayzing command: merge().

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Lately, I’ve been working an awful lot on a new project called Arrayzing.  The goal of Arrayzing is to adapt the design of jQuery to work with JavaScript arrays of anything. 

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