Animation and Movement with jQuery

Posted on Aug 24, 2010

I recently finished a website design for Eagle Jewelry (http://www.eaglejewelrysf.com) that has some very nice movement and animation all done jQuery.  With the No Flash on the Apple iPads many of the flash sites are just nice big blank screens on the iPad.  The alternative text on most flash sites is a link to download and install Flash but with no support on an iPad you don’t even see that message since it isn’t an alternative.

I personally don’t own an iPad but there is a handy little tool out there to check a website on an iPad screen called iPadPeek.  Just type in the URL and you can see your website (see screenshot).

I’m still learning jQuery but it is a really nice alternative.  I have to look forward to learning HTML5 soon for some of the same reasons but for now this worked out fine.