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JavaScript Made Easy: Start Enriching Your Gaming or Media Site
This year there has been a lot of rumour around the release of HTML 5. It does have some great rich features, but that’s not what this article is about. Why? Because of the browser legacy the average gaming- or media portal is facing… Especially sites trying to target a worldwide audience can bump into serious browser issues.
We all know how frustrating it can be to develop HTML / CSS that will work on IE 6, 7, 8+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and so on. Put this together with writing compatible JavaScript and “frustration frenzy” can start! Things get better, but still… This article is written to help you make your developer life easier. I wrote this article about jQuery, because I have good experiences with this product. There are also other frameworks out there, like for example Mootools and ExtJS.
The jQuery framework is so called open source software, making your JavaScript (and possible CSS) life a lot easier. There is a whole community behind the framework writing additions to it, helping each other and thus save a lot of work. You don’t have to know JavaScript anymore; with just easy lines of code you can create functionality that would have normally taken you days or weeks to create. This starts off with easy functionality like fading, swapping, scrolling and show/hide content. Not really exciting maybe… The real strength lies in the so called plug-ins for this framework. This goes from easy embed of video and flash content, to drag and drop, advanced AJAX functionality and a lot more just at your fingertips! The product has excellent support from extensive manuals and an active community. Need help? Just ask them!
Still I have noticed some essential functionalities lack in jQuery for a gaming or media portal. The first one would be a script showing advertising in front of the game, while it is preloading. Some refer to it as “game preloader with ads”. Another would be a decent frontend for rating content (mostly a 5-star rating module). It’s time for me to share back with the community, so I will dedicate my next 2 articles to helping you installing that plugin on your portal. Stay tuned…
For now you should start of playing around with the framework and learn the basics. All the information you require can be found on jQuery.com.
About the Author
Thank you for your interest in thisarticles! The author of this article owns several online gaming sites about Puzzle games and Balloon Tower Defense.
javascript basics Questions
How long will it take to learn Java?
How long on average should it take me to learn Javascript so that I have enough knowledge of it to create a Firefox add-on? I have no other programming experience under my belt and only know that basics of HTML. (One website said it should only take days)
Also, I may as well ask, what good tutorials are there on the web?
Thanks to the two answerers so far. I did mean JavaScript. Thank you to the second answerer. Very detailed and helpful. The only answer I probably need.
Your question title said Java, but then you said Javascript in description. Since you mentioned Firefox add-on, I take it that you meant the latter.
Javascript itself isn’t that difficult. I recommend that you go through http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp for the preliminary course. Maybe you’ll need a couple of days, maybe up to weeks, to grasp the understanding, as you only have experience in HTML.
Okay, here comes the hard part, but don’t get disheartened. To make a Firefox add-on, apart from HTML and Javascript, you also need to learn DOM and XUL. DOM is mostly related to how you want to manipulate a page/document, while XUL is mostly for the interface (toolbar, menu, etc). The main resource for all those is at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Main_Page .
What I mean by hard is that you need to get to know how all these things come together to work on the effect that you wanted to create. Having to learn everything from zero is not impossible, but can drive you nuts.
If you can find add-ons doing things similar to what you wanted, try downloading them and check out the source. Go to the add-ons website and instead of clicking the install button for that particular add-on, right click on it instead (currently, button color is green) and select save link as. The downloaded file has the extension .xpi, but is actually a zip file. Rename the extension to .zip and then you can extract the contents.
Inside, you will find folders, each having its own function. Now check out Mozilla Developer’s tutorial on making extension, they should have explanation on what the folders, and the files are for.
But that story is for afterwards. Right now you should first consider whether you want to learn Javascript or not. Or maybe you can do it like I did, downloading add-ons, cracking them open, check out the code, and learning Javascript, DOM, XUL all at once in the meantime.
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