Each day this week, we’ll post five of the top twenty-five videos from the Nettuts+/Screenr competition. Your job, if you choose to accept it, is to review these short web development video tips and choose your favorite one in the poll below. How should you judge? Quite simply – there are no rules! Pick the one that helped you the most. The most chosen video each day will earn a spot in the top five at the end of the week!
For the second day of this week-long video competition, you’ll learn about basic closures in JavaScript, using the Flot plugin to create graphs, building a content slider, and more!
1. JavaScript Disabled, no Problem!
2. Basic Closures in JavaScript
3. Plotting Graphs with jQuery and the Flot Plugin
4. Create a Content Slider with jQuery
5. Create an Automatically Updating Envato Comics RSS feed using Yahoo Pipes
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Goog sharing, thanks.
Good sharing thanks.
The “JavaScript Disabled, no Problem!” quickcast was simply ingenious.
I like it a lot!
The only thing that I can see being a possible problem is IE is sometimes known to freak out when JS attempts to modify an element (whether that be modifying the element itself or creating new elements within that element) before that element hasn’t completely loaded (or in some cases before that elements PARENT element has completely loaded).
There’s actually a lot of documentation on this problem around the web as well, if you happen to get away with this working then I think that’s great!
Let’s watching everyone and later choice the winner. Nice screencasts, I’m very impressed what we cand do in 5 minutes or less. :)
at the 1. JavaScript Disabled, no Problem! you can do it with the noscript tag.
I was thinking that while watching it, he just creates more work and markup.
Yes, but the [noscript] tag doesn’t work in all situations.
Such as…?
@meshach: on the iphone-webkit btw.
for example: XHTML 5 (Mime-Type application/xhtml+xml ) does not allow noscript.
My vote went to the content slider plugin. Great screencast.
I agree! That was very helpful and he made it look so easy
Great Screencasts! :)
Great screencasts. I have to say though, while the 4th one is nice, the 1st DEFINITELY has it’s place, and I think it’s the best.
You can have nice, flashy stuff, but you should always conform to all users first. That is a really helpful tutorial.
I guess I don’t get #1, either. It seems backwards. Isn’t the whole point progressive enhancement, not progressive degradation?
Isn’t best practice to start with a page that works for all users, and progressively add extra bits of JavaScript to enhance the functionality? And if you need to display something when someone doesn’t have JS enabled, just use the noscript tag.
tut n1 use have to js here is disable!tag!
I liked almost all of them.
Couldn’t finish viewing the screencast “Basic Closures in JavaScript” due to the very irritating hum.
Nice JavaScript closure video. :)
Seemed like more than 5 minutes.
#2 was a huge help, but i don’t think the was it was intended to help, that video finally helped me understand oop in js
Content slider plugin all the way. It has nothing to do with the fact that I was trying to get one together for a site, great timing **grins**
Loving these quick posts, it adds that extra dimension to Nettuts plus it gives you an insight into how others work in a short 5 min burst.
Looking forward to the rest.
I just LOVE these 5 minute screencasts!
Glad to hear that! I do too. :)
I liked all the screencasts… don’t know which one to vote for :(
Javascript Disabled is the winner for me here! Nos. 2,3,4 are great tuts too!
the speaker of the Flot-tutorial is hard to understand for a non-native English speaker like myself
It’s certainly something I have to work on.
This was actually only my second screencast and there’ll be plenty more to come from me as and when I find the outlook to publish them… hopefully i’ll get the chance to hone my skills then as an orator.
JavaScript Disabled screenr is one of those that sound simple but comes-in handy big-time. Voted! Good Luck!
I voted on the presenter, not the content. I thought #1 did the best job presenting the info and voted for him although the most useful one for me was #4.
I think the ‘No JavaScript No Problem’ screencast was most nicely explained and delivered, but thought the ‘JavaScript Closures’ one had the most interesting content (with the Yahoo Pipes demo coming in second, in that regard).
I lake the last one!