Had another go with jquery. Last time I had tried to use the xml functions for ajax. It worked, kind of, but kept clearing my cookies resulting in needing a nasty workaround to restore them.

This time I was going for something less ambitious – my homepage has a text area that changes depending on which of four graphics your cursor is over. I wanted the text area to slide up, down, in or out or some similar ‘cool’ effect, instead of just switching over.

Got the jquery installed and figured out the jquery code to do this … nice and straightforward – 20 mins. But then trying to get it to work smoothly and in a neat manner … no! The text would slide in and out, but it just wouldn’t work cleanly. After 1 1/2 hours faffing I’d had enough. Looked through the demoes for doing this kind of thing – they were all a bit jerky and just not good enough.

So once again – I like the idea of jquery – but it doesn’t quite work … then there’s the problem if there’s anything wrong with the jquery code – you need to be a javascript master to touch it …