Sean Catchpole has created a new jQuery plugin called idTabs. Although not as feature rich as some alternatives, the beauty of this plugin is in its simplicity. As usual these days, everything behaves differently in each browser. Safari on Windows behaves very badly. He mentioned on the jQuery mailing list that he wanted to know how well it worked in Safari on Windows. Sorry Sean, not very well.
Don’t let this discourage you from checking out this neat jQuery plugin, idTabs.
I get asked a lot, especially on the Web Connect forum and jQuery mailing list, about Ajax (not AJAX, thank you) file uploads. The XHR object in javascript cannot access file uploads, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your users an Ajax-like experience. Here are some options and their corresponding back end languages.
Using Ajax in your website makes you buzzword compliant these days (OMG teh Web 2.0!?!), but once the hype passes I think everyone will agree then when used properly, it can greatly enhance the user experience.