TopUp – Powerful lightbox plugin for jQuery
Handles images, flash, movies, iframes, DOM elements and raw HTML. Compress and CSS sprite-driven, it weighs in at only 33.4KB. A number of presets and toptions make setup easy. [Visit the site] [View...
View ArticlejQuery-Haml: A Haml-like language written in JSON
WOW! Haml is making in-roads to JSON! jQuery-haml is a Haml-like language written in JSON. This allows for easy DOM building so that web apps can do more work independent of the server for a better...
View ArticleGritter 1.6 – A small growl-like notification plugin for jQuery
Neat way to add Growl-like notifications to your jQuery apps. Or you could use JetPack. [Source on GitHub] [Homepage] [Demo it!] The post Gritter 1.6 – A small growl-like notification plugin for jQuery...
View ArticleMasonry: Grid layout for jQuery
Cool layout plugin for jQuery from @desandro with support for infinite scroll as well. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically,...
View ArticleSlidify: Lightweight slider plugin for jQuery
A lightweight jQuery plugin that transforms input elements into UI Slider controls: Example from the README: <input type="text" value="0" name="lol" id="lol" class="example"> <input...
View Articlejquery.behavior: chunk up your jQuery into ‘behaviors’
If you’ve written more than a trivial amount of jQuery, you quickly wonder about the best way to organize your JavaScript. @rodpetrovic’s take is called jquery.behavior: // 1. Create behavior: function...
View ArticlejQuery Compat 1.3: Backwards compatibility plugin for jQuery 1.3
Looks like John is just adding in the initial plugin…but this is the repo to watch if you need backwards compatibility for jQuery 1.3 (to be used with jQuery 1.4). [Source on GitHub] The post jQuery...
View ArticleEpisode 0.0.9 – Fix-me, Configliere, and more Node.js
Adam and Wynn ran down some news highlights with Marshall Culpepper from Appcelerator. Items discussed Fix me repo Persistence jQuery.behavior Configliere The post Episode 0.0.9 – Fix-me, Configliere,...
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jQuery-Lint: find and errors and improve your jQuery usage
Like its namesake, JSLint, jQuery Lint from @jamespadolsey aims to make you a better jQuery code monkey by finding errors and giving you hints on proper selector usage. It is also fully integrated into...
View ArticleJSpec: Robust BDD for both client and server JavaScript
JSpec from @visionmedia wants to be your BDD framework no matter where you run your JavaScript. JSpec supports not only JavaScript in the browser and popular client-side frameworks like jQuery, it also...
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iphone-style-checkboxes: Turn boring checkboxes into iPhone-style toggle...
Progressively enhance your forms by turning boring old checkboxes into stylish iPhone-style toggle switches. Dependencies: jQuery or Prototype + Scriptaculous [Source on GitHub] [Homepage] The post...
View Articlefirequery – jQuery love for Firebug
Firequery from Antonin Hildebrand is a neat tool that adds jQuery features to Joe Hewitt’s FireBug add-on for Firefox including: jQuery expressions are intelligently presented in Firebug Console and...
View ArticleQuicksand: Awesome jQuery plugin to filter/animate HTML lists
Quicksand from Jacek Galanciak is a jQuery plugin to help you filter and animate items in an HTML list. With code like this: $("#content").quicksand($("#data > li"), { // all the parameters have...
View Articlexkcdfools: Mock a UNIX terminal in jQuery
As seen on xkcd’s awesome April Fool’s homepage, xkcdfools is a mock terminal client written in jQuery. Many familiar commands are supported: guest@xkcd:/$ ls welcome.txt license.txt blag/ blog/ fora/...
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jStorage – stash that hash using jQuery, Prototype, or Mootools
jStorage from Andris Reinman is a small (2kb) simple wrapper for popular javascript frameworks to abstract local storage. HTML5 local storage is used if present and it even supports userData in older...
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slablet: Stylish CSS layout for iPad and more
If you like Sencha Touch, the HTML5 mobile framework we recently covered in Episode 0.3.0, but long for a more declarative, markup-driven approach, then keep an eye on Slablet from Fellowship...
View Articlehandlebars.js: Optimized JavaScript templating based on Mustache.js
If you’ve ever used Jan Lehnardt’s Mustache.js, a port of Chris Wanstrath’s logic-less views project Mustache, be sure and checkout Handlebars.js from Yehuda Katz. Handlebars builds on Mustaches’...
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Lettering.js: Radical web typography with jQuery
Even with the improvements @font-face brings to typography, web designers still don’t have quite the control as their print counterparts. Basic tasks like per-letter or per-word styling involves a lot...
View Articlezepto.js: Minimalist JavaScript framework for mobile WebKit with jQuery-like...
It may seem strange that the author of Prototype-based script.aculo.us would embark on creating a new jQuery-esque JavaScript library for mobile devices, but that’s exactly what Thomas Fuchs has done...
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gury: A jQuery-inspired chainable JavaScript helper for HTML5 Canvas
With more and more browser and mobile device support, adoption of the HTML5 <canvas> object is accelerating. For developers who are used to working with JavaScript libraries, using the native...
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