Exactly one year ago, John Resig and the jQuery team released version 1.3. This release came packed with feature upgrades, such as the new ultra-fast Sizzle selector engine, live event bindings, and more. Development has been rather quiet since then, leading many to speculate that nothing major was going on - boy were they wrong!

One common theme in great user interfaces is the ability to edit content in place without page reload. If you are displaying any kind of editable content to a user, that user will almost expect the ability to manipulate their content without having to work through one or more page reloads. Javascript is the perfect candidate to utilize this type of functionality within your website. More specifically, the jQuery framework will simplify your task even more.

I've been working on a project last week that involves creating a custom plugin for FCKEditor. I needed a way to inject custom code into the HTML output (custom Magento templating stuff, actually). I wanted the code to be hidden from the user but easily managed by the user through a dialog box. This way, the user can easily change this without worrying about the underlying code (or FCKEditor corrupting it).