JavaScript, jQuery & jQuery Tools in Plone
This two-day class in using JavaScript with Plone 3 or 4 will cover the creation of interactive elements like overlays, menus, accordions, slideshows and AJAX forms in Plone.
Registration will be handled on-site.
When
November 22nd and 23rd, 2010
Where
Córdoba, Argentina, site of the Plone Symposium South America, which follows.
Instructor
Steve McMahon, Plone Core Developer responsible for integration of the Plone 4 overlay package. Steve is also the creator of PloneFormGen and maintainer of the Unified and OS X Plone installers. Steve is currently at work on two JavaScript-related PLIPs for Plone 4.1.
Topics Covered
- The basics of
JavaScript, focusing on the safe and sane subset of the language that has made JavaScript practical for serious web applications and is part of Plone’s coding standards for JavaScript components;
- Plone’s framework for including JavaScript into pages and add-on products;
- The marvelous jQuery JavaScript library, included with Plone since Plone 3.1, that allows you to write unobtrusive JavaScript that works well with CSS and degrades well when JS isn't available;
- The jQuery Tools kit, included with Plone 4 and easy to use with Plone 3.x, which provides lightweight facilities for overlays, menus, accordions and slideshows.
- The plone.app.jquerytools helpers for overlayed AJAX forms.
The class will combine lecture and exercises.
Audience
Visual designers and user-interface implementers
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of JavaScript, CSS and the Document Object Model. Proficiency is not required.
