jQuery ListNav Plugin supplies an easy way to unobtrusively add a letter-based navigation widget to any UL or OL list. An easily stylable (via CSS) nav bar appears above the list, showing the user the letters A-through-Z.
Clicking one of the letters filters the list to show only the items in the list that start with that letter. Hovering over a letter (optionally) shows a count above the letter, indicating how many items will be displayed if that letter is clicked. Other options give you control over the basic functionality.
ListNav works great on long lists. It supports multiple lists on the same page. And it has been tested on IE6, IE7, Firefox 2 and 3 (Windows and Mac), Safari (Windows and Mac).
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/Demos/Current/jquery-listnav-plugin.aspx
License: MIT, GPL License
UI.Layout was inspired by the extJS border-layout, and recreates that functionality as a jQuery plug-in. The UI.Layout plug-in can create any UI look you want – from simple headers or sidebars, to a complex application with toolbars, menus, help-panels, status bars, sub-forms, etc.
UI.Layout creates a ‘page-layout’ that has auto-sizing ‘center pane’ surrounded by up to four collapsible and resizable ‘border panes’ (north, south, east & west). It can also create multiple headers & footers inside each pane.
For more complex layouts, you can nest layouts within layouts. Or use an iframe as a pane to create a ‘sub-form’ that can have its own layout. The possibilities are unlimited – from simple fixed headers or sidebars to rich applications. Layouts are created from existing elements (divs, iframes, etc), so UI.Layout will degrade gracefully.
Combined it with other jQuery UI widgets to create a sophisticated application. There are no limitations or issues – this widget is ready for production use. You can checkout Demos page for a list of all demos and samples.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://layout.jquery-dev.net/
License: GPL, MIT License
WireIt is an open-source javascript library to create web wirable interfaces like Yahoo! Pipes for dataflow applications, visual programming languages or graphical modeling. Wireit uses the YUI library (2.6.0) for DOM and events manipulation, and excanvas for IE support of the canvas tag. It currently supports Firefox 1.5+, Safari 2.0+, IE 7.0, Opera 9+ and Chrome 0.2.x.
Requirements: YUI Framework
Demo: http://javascript.neyric.com/wireit/
License: MITLicense
Easy Slider enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone. So, basically you link to plugin file, set the content up and style it with css. First you’ll need content and it should be wrapped inside a div containing an ordered list where each list item represents one slide.
You can basically put whatever you want inside list items as long as you keep the same dimensions. Script automatically adds “previous” and “next” buttons in form of span elements with nested anchors just after the content element.
On each click (previous or next button) script calculates the current “position” and makes a one step in requested direction. So, the slider jumps from one slide to another. Once it reaches the end (last slide), the “next” button fades away and re-appears only if “previous” button is clicked again. Same goes for sliding towards the beginning.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://cssglobe.com/post/3783/jquery-plugin-easy-image-or-content-slider
License: MIT, GPL License
Sinatra is a Ruby “micro framework” for developing Web applications. It seems to have reached critical mass – it’s on the cusp of becoming really popular.
This is a good time to check it out and see where it could fit into your own projects. Lots of awesome articles about Sinatra, Sinatra apps, and various links and resources have cropped up over the past few months.
RubyInside shows us the best links and resources for Sinatra they have found on Sinatra: 29 Links and Resources For A Quicker, Easier Way to Build Webapps. Most of which you should find useful as you start to explore Sinatra in detail.
The resources includes Tutorials and Presentations, Sinatra Applications, Deployment, Sinatra Blogging Engines and Sites Built on Sinatra.
Requirements: Sinatra
Demo: http://www.rubyinside.com/sinatra…
License: MIT License
The jQuery sIFR Plugin is an addon for jQuery that makes it easy to replace text in a web page with flash text (sIFR, Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). It gives you a function in javascript to replace text in a web page dynamically with sIFR text, using native jQuery functionality along with the jQuery Flash Plugin.
The jQuery sIFR plugin is fully configurable and can choose how little or how much you want to customize the display of the sIFRed text. It uses jQuery’s native functionality to eliminate the otherwise code redundancy in SWFObject, meaning you get a much smaller filesize and even faster loading.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://jquery.thewikies.com/sifr/
License: GPL, MIT License
We can create javascript treeview component quickly with jsTree. It accepts various data sources including predefined HTML, JSON and XML. User can open, close, rename, create, delete nodes easily. jsTree supports drag & drop and multiple select as well. And also, jsTree supports easy CSS customization of icons, dots, background, fonts & sizes. So that you can create your own unique javascript treeview component easily.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.jstree.com/jsTree/examples/
License: MIT, GPL License
Jx is a javascript library for creating graphical user interaces based on the fabulous MooTools library. They provide access to the library as well as extensive documentation and examples. The Jx examples are a set of web pages that illustrate specific Jx components. Simply click on a page in the tree to the left to load the appropriate sample and get started exploring Jx right away.
The theme selection allows you to change between Jx skins on the fly. Simply click the button to expose a list of available skins and select a new skin to see the effect immediately. They store a cookie in your browser so you don’t have to keep changing skins every time you load a new example. Jx is distributed under the MIT license.
Requirements: Mootools Framework
Demo: http://jxlib.org/
License: MIT License
CSS Frameworks have been a hot topic the past few months. Although they’ve been getting a lot of heat from semantic freaks and minimalists (for adding unnecessary code), I think they’re a step forward. Web design is about doing things quickly and beautifully. No matter how you feel about frameworks, it’s undeniable that they speed up the design process.
We have seen some of the popular CSS Framework like, 960.gs, Blueprint, YAML. Capsize Designs decided to combine the good points of each of them to get something that I was satisfied with. He has pretty much taken the entire grid from Blueprint (with a bunch of his own changes) and the entire typography from Tripoli (with a bunch more of his changes). Since most of it came from BlueprintCSS or Tripoli, This CSS Framework is called BlueTrip. The end result ended up really nice.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://capsizedesigns.com/blog/2008/04/bluetripcss…
License: MIT and GPL License
SimpleCart(js) is a simple paypal shopping cart in under 11kb that you can setup in minutes. It uses cookies to keep track of the items in the cart. Therefore, simpleCart(js) doesn’t require any databases or programming knowledge. You simply need to know some basic HTML and have the ability to copy and paste. However, it can easily be expanded to use databases or contain more advanced options. It’s lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable.
Requirements: PayPal Account Required
Demo: http://www.thewojogroup.com/simpleCart/
License: MIT License
