jquery

  • "A jQuery plugin for creating big, bold & responsive headlines." This page is a nice demo. Resize your browser to see the headlines at various sizes.
  • Nice looking jQuery/Prototype plugin that makes long select boxes more user friendly.
  • "...your visitor will have a limited amount of time (specified by you) to fill in the form and send it. And if a spammer tries to post information to your form processor remotely they’re going to hit a big fat roadblock."
  • "...you can create a honeypot form field that should be left blank and then use CSS to hide it from human users, but not bots." Pure CSS bot thwarting.
  • Animated Ajax loading image generator.
  • A nice jQuery plugin that provides infinite scrolling with minimal setup if you already have paging.
  • Hey neat! James Taylor has some highly produced guitar lessons he's putting on YouTube. [via scottandrew]
  • "As we mature as developers, finding logic errors and incomplete solutions becomes our way of life. It defines us. But our engineering strength is also our social weakness." uhoh, I'm guilty of this sometimes. [via mathowie]
  • A nice modal window kit for Prototype.
  • "Amplify's goal is to simplify all forms of data handling by providing a unified API for various data sources." Looks like a write-once way to handle client side storage.
  • Filed for use: "...ultimate guide to 37 download resources for hundreds of [mobile] emulators and simulators."
  • Write an HTML5/JavaScript app and PhoneGap will turn it into a native app for various mobile devices including iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
  • Still in Alpha, but this looks like a great way to speed-up mobile site development. The form elements demo is impressive.
  • Another JavaScript charting library.
  • A jQuery port of Prototype's PerodicalUpdater method that includes a polling interval decay if updates aren't happening.
  • "...if after a few Ajax polls there’s no data, there probably won’t be for a while. Maybe the site is overloaded or the queue is backed up. In those circumstances the continued polling adds additional unwanted strain to the site." Another polling approach: increase the interval every time.
  • "And the greater risk is not of Flickr’s deletion of customers, but of the market’s deletion of Flickr. Because, after all, Flickr is a business and no business lasts forever. Least of all in the tech world." Valid concerns about Flickr, advertising, and how we fund the Web.