A while back Jeff Douglas posted on his blog how to embed a Flex slider into a visualforce page. This is pretty slick and can be really useful, but I’m not a really a fan of Flex (I’ll post about that later) so today let’s look at doing the same thing a little different.
Instead of using Flex to build the slider I will show you how to do this with javascript. This requires less code and I feel it is easier to implement.
We are going to add a super nifty ultra slick slider with only 16 lines of javascript code.
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I have always been curious how many lines of Apex code I have written. Is it a couple hundred (haha, ya right), several thousand, a gazillion million trillion? There was never really a good way to figure this out unless you pulled down all of the data and inspected it file by file. Lame.
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My posts have been lacking lately but in the next few weeks I plan on creating some super slick demos that mix jQuery and Force.com into a delicious concoction of wonderfulness. Before I do this I’d like to go over the basics of setting up jQuery to play nice with Force.com (or salesforce.com, all the same).
If all we need is jQuery, the first thing we need to do is download it here here: http://jquery.com/.
There will be two versions, one is considered production and the other development. These actually contain the same code but the production file removes all unnecessary spaces.
This smaller version allows the script to be downloaded quicker by users viewing the page and will provide a better user experience to those with less bandwidth.
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