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What are JavaScript Frameworks Like Spry & jQuery?

• JavaScript frameworks are pre-written JavaScript code that do common tasks/effects. They make development easier and faster
• Adobe's JavaScript framework is called Spry
• jQuery is probably the most popular JavaScript framework. Lots of people have developed great plugins based on jQuery, which you can download and use.
• jQuery's advantage is that it can do much more than Spry. It is also more of an industry standard.

JavaScript Frameworks (Spry & jQuery) works on an iPhone, Flash doesn't!

jQuery jquery.com

(min.js is a simplified file of the original js file)

jQuery work samples mediatemple.net/jquery14

Ajax = asynchronous JavaScript and XML » web content can be preloaded behind the scene (ex. jQuery multiple tabs with bookmark support, which means that you can use the Back button to navigate visited tabs)

jQuery Cycle Plugin www.malsup.com/jquery/cycle

This plugin can also cycle DIVs

If recycle images' sizes are different, this plugin will still work.

Samples

• panic.com/coda » rollover to "Download" to see the pop-up note (the concept of One Window Web Development)
• www.krop.com/iamgarth » clicking on any icon will scroll down the page and open a larger version » clicking on the enlarged image will navigate you to the next image.
• dragoninteractive.com » see the animated rollover button
• resenmedia.com » click on Product » scroll down to Tangibles » click on the image to navigate

CSS can create a whole navbar with all its states (rollover, down, etc.) in one image. This is called CSS Sprites and makes it download faster. (see apple.com top navbar)

The best way to create a good drop-down menu is using CSS.

Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns

Fun Stuff: iconfactory iconfactory.com

Since the release of Safari 3.1, there now have an option in Safari's Preferences » Advanced to show/hide the Develop menu

Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life - Eknath Easwaran

ISBN-10: 1586380265
ISBN-13: 978-1586380267

The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley ~p11 {interested}
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi ~p37 {author's high recommendation}

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna ~p198 {author's high recommendation}

In India, meditation is called "the end of sorrow" and "mastery of the art of living." ~p13

The Buddha explains, "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." ~p21

Eight Steps of Passage Meditation ~p24
1. Meditation on a Passage
2. Repetition of a Mantram
3. Slowing Down
4. One-pointed Attention
5. Training the Senses
6. Putting Others First
7. Spiritual Companionship
8. Spiritual Reading

Good Passage Sources
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Twenty-third Psalm
Katha Upanishad

Passages
Let nothing upset you;
Let nothing frighten you;
Everything is changing;
God alone is changeless.
Patience attains the goal.
Who has God lacks nothing;
God alone fills every need.
— Teresa of Avila

A mind that is fast is sick.
A mind that is slow is sound.
A mind that is still is divine.
— Meher Baba

I tell you one thing –
if you want peace of mind,
do not find fault with others.
Rather learn to see your own faults.
Learn to make the whole world your own.
No one is a stranger, my child;
this whole world is your own.
— Sri Sarada Devi

Praise and blame,
gain and loss,
pleasure and sorrow
come and go like the wind.
To be happy,
rest like a giant tree
in the midst of them all.
— Buddha

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
— Sai Baba

Four things come not back—the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, and the neglected opportunity.
— Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (c. 750-c. 803) Poet

"Ego" comes from the Latin for "I."

"Ahamkara" means "self-will" in Sanskrit.

"Aham" means "I" in Sanskrit.

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space - Joseph Campbell

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2002

page xx

As stated already centuries ago in the Indian Kena Upanisad (Upanishad): “That which in the lightning flashes forth, makes one blink, and say ‘Ah!’—that ‘Ah!’ refers to divinity.” And centuries before that, in the Chhãndogya Upanisad (c. ninth century B.C.):

When [in the world] one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, recognizes nothing else: that is [participation in] the Infinite. But when one sees, hears, and recognizes only otherness: that is smallness. The Infinite is the immortal. That which is small is mortal.

But sir, that Infinite: upon what is it established?

Upon its own greatness—or rather, not upon greatness. For by greatness people here understand cows and horses, elephants and gold, slaves, wives, mansions and estates. That is not what I mean; not that! For in that context everything is established on something else.

This Infinite of which I speak is below. It is above. It is to the west, to the east, to the south, to the north. It is, in fact, this whole world. And accordingly, with respect to the notion of ego (ahamkãrãdesa): I also am below, above, to the east, to the south, and to the north. I, also, am this whole world.

Or again, with respect to the Self (ãtman): The Self (the Spirit) is below, above, to the west, to the east, to the south, and to the north. The Self (the Spirit), indeed, is the whole world.

Verily, the one who sees this way, thinks and understands this way, takes pleasure in the Self, delights in the Self, dwells with the Self and knows bliss in the Self; such a one is autonomous (svarãj), moving through all the world at pleasure (kãmacãra). Whereas those who think otherwise are ruled by others (anya-rãjan), know but perishable pleasures, and are moved about the world against their will (akãmacãra).