Reveal: jQuery Modals Made Easy

February 16th, 2011 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

Reveal is a jQuery plugin that let’s you create simple modals. Installing and creating Reveal takes less than a minute and you can configure the styles of your modals through a small number of CSS styles.

Reveal is licensed through the MIT license.

JS Libs Deconstructed

February 15th, 2011 - Frontend, Javascript, jQuery, MooTools, Utilities - No Comments

The Deconstructed series is designed to visually and interactively deconstruct the internal code of JavaScript libraries, including jQuery, Prototype and MooTools. It breaks the physical JavaScript into visual blocks that you can easiliy navigate. Each block opens to reveal its internal code. Clickable hyperlinks allow you to follow program flow.

zAccordion – jQuery Horizontal Accordion Plugin

January 17th, 2011 - Frontend, jQuery - 1 Comments

zAccordion is a jQuery plugin that lets you create horizontal accordions very easily. It provides a wide range of options like the timeout between the slides, a custom trigger (like “click” or “mouseover”) and even an easing option to create more interesting horizontal accordions. What makes this plugin great is the minimal markup it requires in order to make it work (a simple UL list will do).

jQuery Offline plugin

May 7th, 2010 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

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

May 6th, 2010 - Frontend, jQuery - 1 Comments

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