Introduction
One of my experience of using jQuery is that I often need to search around for solutions to some particular tasks, although there are good chances that the problems you try to tackle have already been solved by someone else via a plug-in, you still need to digest, evaluate, test and sometimes modify it to fit your project needs. That's perfectly fine for most rapid web development efforts. However, for some browser based, low-level tasks that are common for almost all web applications, searching for multiple plug-ins then put them together and test them out would cost unnecessary time. This article provides a jQuery plug-in (CBEXP) that encapsulates the most common tasks together and is reusable for different web applications.
For example, if your web application needs to conditionally (say, one Ajax call hasn't returned yet) warn user when navigating away or closing the browser window, or your client/service interaction relies on cookies and you want to make sure browser cookie is not turned off, or you need to parse query string and retrieve a particular parameter value in the client, or need to load different stylesheet dynamically without a post back to server, etc., it would be nice to have one jQuery plug in to handle all these low level browser based tasks, then we can focus more on application specific features.
As a matter of fact, CBEXP plug-in was initially put together for a real world consumer facing web application, it has been tested and working, wish it would be useful for your web application too.
