Tag: JQUERY

Whether creating a whole new site or changing an existing design, you may often want to shuffle things around and test different layouts. Liquid Page is a bookmarklet that lets you do just that, on any website, right from your browser. It's as simple as it sounds: you click the bookmarklet, wait about half a second while jQuery loads, click a couple of prompts, and you're on your way. You can now ...

Okay, creating a what in what with what? Come again? Let me explain. gleeBox is an add-on for Firefox/Chrome that enables advanced keyboard navigation. At its simplest form, when you fire up gleeBox it sits there and does nothing. Start typing a part of a link's text, and gleeBox automatically highlights links containing such text. You can then switch between these links quickly using the TAB ...

When I first saw jTrack, the first thing that came to my mind was a joke from Funny People; Adam Sandler's character is talking to this girl in a bar, and she's trying to explain the concept of JDate. To which Sandler replies, "oh, so it's basically a list of Jewish people? I thought Jewish people don't like to be on lists." So no, jTrack (by "Bulgaria Web Developers"!) isn't about tracking any ...

This one's for the web developers: JS "lightbox" galleries are a dime a dozen these days. Do we really need another one? After looking at YoxView, I think it's definitely a worthy contender in this crowded niche. YoxView has the usual lightbox effect but adds a few bells and whistles such as easy support for multiple instances (great for blogs), image pre-caching, timed slideshows, keyboard ...

Flexigrid is a jQuery based way of making flexible data grids, either by inputting fresh data or grabbing it from an existing table, XML, or JSON source. The "flexi-" in Flexigrid refers to its resizable height, width and columns. Flexigrid also now has a toolbar, a search function, and its own API. Although the API isn't documented yet, there's enough there to figure out how to do the most ...

A lot of OS X users are familiar with Growl, a customizable notification system with all kinds of uses. New e-mail, iTunes track changes, new instant messages -- Growl handles all of this stuff. Now there's a Growl-like jQuery plugin called jGrowl that lets you apply the same sort of notification in your browser window. jGrowl supports different animation settings, as well as sticky messages that ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Google I/O round-up Use Google to reference your JavaScript libraries Google Web Toolkit 1.5 RC Other random Google bits ...