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PaintbrushJS by Dave Shea

klou — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:40:14 +0000

PaintbrushJS is a lightweight, browser-based image processing library
that can apply various visual filters to images within a web page.

So, who’s into photoshop filters with just a little Javascript, CSS and HTML elements?

Your “thank you” goes to Author of Mezzoblue, David Shea!

Class JS – Basic class structure in under a kilobyte of code

Gerasimos — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:00:37 +0000

Javascript freak? Do you need setters, getters, constructors and class extending capabilities? Class JS provides a basic class structure in under a kilobyte of code.

jQuery Offline plugin

Gerasimos — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:55:56 +0000

jQuery offline plugin provides a mechanism for retrieving and storing data through JSON on the client side. While the plugin makes use of the HTML5 localStorage API for persistence, the plugin will fall back to making a request to the server each time for browser that don’t support localStorage. The author states that jQuery Offline should be used in conjunction with Rack::Offline for automating the process of generating a cache manifest and jQuery-templ for taking a javascript object and producing the necessary HTML out of it.

Pagination with jQuery: Sweet Pages

Gerasimos — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:18:25 +0000

A jQuery plugin and a tutorial on how to paginate small sets of data on the client side using jQuery.

CSS and jQuery tutorial: Inline Modal Window

Gerasimos — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:45:39 +0000

As the author of this tutorial says, and i totally agree with him, there are times that out of the box solutions for modal windows are not working as they should. Especially when you have to combine scripts things can get really messy. So over at sohtanaka.com you can find a really good tutorial on how to create your own inline modal windows with css and jquery.

Micro Image Gallery: A jQuery Plugin

Gerasimos — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:02:26 +0000

Micro image gallery is a jQuery plugin that will transform a set of images on your website into a miniature gallery. There’s an option to have previous / next buttons, a grid view and the size of the gallery can be adjusted (102, 162, 202 px).

Sweet Justice jQuery plugin – Create beautiful justified text

Gerasimos — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:00:16 +0000

Sweet Justice is a jQuery plugin that will take a piece of text and turn it into justified text. It will also insert a soft hyphen if needed. It works with both jQuery and YUI3. If you take a look at the code of this really small plugin (almost 5k) you will see that the author have some conditionals in place. It won’t touch text inside code, pre and abbr tags. There’s also a minimum characters check set on 6 characters. Great little thingy.

MooGStreet – A Mootools and Google Street View API plugin

Gerasimos — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:08:41 +0000

If you are a Mootools fan and your are looking for an easy way to integrate Google street views in your pages, with MoogStreet is a matter of writing 1 line of code.

jQuery “Feature Carousel” plug-in

Gerasimos — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:01:34 +0000

Originally created to display featured stories on the homepage, jQuery “Feature Carousel” is now available as a jQuery plugin. While it will display the main image at the front and 2 other images at the back, it supports more than 3 images to be rotated in a really smooth way. A long set of options are available for further customization.

jQuery.popeye 2.0 – an inline lightbox alternative

Gerasimos — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:20:05 +0000

jQuery popeye isn’t new. A new version (2.0) is available though. For those not familiar with the script, jQuery popeye is an inline lightbox alternative. Version 2.0 features the ability to place html in the photos’ captions and have a custom html structure. As the author states, a series of bugs were fixed too.