Loading jQuery using plain Javascript:: // inject e.g. jQuery into a webpage var thescript = ‘http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js’; var newscript = document.createElement( ‘script’ ); newscript.setAttribute( ‘src’, thescript ); newscript.setAttribute( ‘type’, ‘text/javascript’ ); var head = document.getElementsByTagName(“head”)[0]; head.appendChild(newscript); To call this from your script with a test to see if jQuery is loaded: // Test if jQuery is […]

Today I’ve authored a simple plugin for jQuery that does ASCIIMATION. It was inspired by the classic Star Wars asciimation. You can have a look at the google code repository for jQuery asciimation or check out the online demo starring a spinning planet Earth. I’m going to use it in an upcoming demo project.