jQuery Roundup: 1.6.3, lccache, Storagify

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at 2011-09-06 07:00:00

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jQuery 1.6.3

jQuery 1.6.3 has been released, not long after RC1. This version fixes a much discussed XSS attack, animation browser tab switchiing issues, and better handling of HTML5 attribute names.

lccache

lccache (License: Apache 2.0) by Pamela Fox and John Munsch emulates memcache for client-side caching. John Munsch’s port uses Lawnchair instead of HTML5 Local Storage, which means it should work in older browsers.

The library has three methods: set, get and remove:

//          key,        value,          time/expiration
lccache.set('greeting', 'Hello World!', 2);

lccache.get('greeting');
// Returns 'Hello World!'

// Objects can also be stored
lccache.set('data', { 'greeting': 'Hello World!' }, 2);
lccache.get('data').greeting;

Pamela’s real world examples included developing against JSON APIs on unreliable networks. The most obvious example is a mobile web app. I’d also consider it for single page apps, because it makes knowing when to refresh data that might change on the server a lot easier.

Storagify

Storagify (GitHub: ekdevdes / Storagify, License: MIT/GPL) by Ethan Kramer combines HTML5 contenteditable with Local Storage to make potentially any element editable. Calling $('selector').storagify('storageKey'); makes the element editable, and changes will be visible after a page refresh.

Now imagine combining this with a simple JSON API and you’ve got yourself a CMS in minutes!

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