Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

CoolTips is a lightweight unobtrusive JavaScript web-browser tooltips replacement technique. CoolTips is used to replace conventional web-browser tooltips which has been tested on Windows and Mac. Firefox, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer 6, 7. The tooltips get contents of title attribute, so it’s fully unobtrusive. CoolTips is an Object-Oriented class based on Prototype JS and Script.aculo.us frameworks. You can customize the look of different CoolTips instances using bunch of parameters or CSS easily.

Requirements: Prototype JS and Script.aculo.us Frameworks
Demo: http://www.wildbit.com/labs/cooltips/
License: MIT License

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We have got an official User Interface Library of jQuery eventually… It is called jQuery UI, is a set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.The core of the library revolves around different mouse interactions, namely drag and dropping, sorting, selecting, and resizing.

On top of the core interactions are built a number of reusable widgets, including accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, table sorters, and tabs. Finally, the library is finished off with a few effects that you can use to liven up your site, specifically magnifier and shadow. The photo gallery and the speed testing application is particular impressive which shows you the power of the UI.

Requirements: jQuery Javascript Framework
Demo: http://ui.jquery.com/
License: MIT License / GPL License

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DealDotCom.com is the place on the web to find all the Internet Marketing products you really want for rock bottom prices. The website idea is quite good. Their affiliate program is really tasty.

What Do They Sell?
Anything and everything related to building an online business, increasing traffic, monetizing your websites, blogging, web design.. They’ve spent the last 4 months stalking big-name (and not-so-big-name) Internet Marketers who sell high-quality products, and convincing them to let us sell their stuff at huge discounts on DealDotCom.

Each day, they only have ONE product for sale. It’ll be for sale at an insanely low price, and there will be an extremely limited number of copies available. That product will only be available until it sells out, or until midnight the next night, when we pull it down and start selling a new product.

Permanent Lifetime Two-Tier Commissions
When you refer others to DealDotCom and they get their free account, they are marked in their system as having been referred by you. Anything that they ever buy from them nets you a 35% commission FOREVER. What’s more, anyone that they refer to DealDotCom goes on your second tier. Anything people on your second tier buy nets you a 15% commission FOREVER.

Requirements: No Requirements
Sign Up Now: Sign Up Now
License: N/A

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Proto.Menu is a simple and lightweight prototype-based solution for context menu functionality on your page. It is about 2 KB ( 1.5 KB Minified). It is Unobstrusive which plays nice with Javascript turned off and uses its own namespace, so it won’t messed up with your codes. The menu styling can be easily defined in external CSS. It is also a Full A-Graded browsers support (Opera is supported through Ctrl + Left Click). It looks very tidy and suitable for web applications with context menu.

Requirements: Firefox 1.5+, Internet Explorer 6+, Safari 3+, Opera 9+, Netscape Navigator 9+
Demo: http://yura.thinkweb2.com/scripting/contextMenu/
License: License Free

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FusionCharts Free is a flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications and presentations. It is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts. You do NOT need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts. All you need to know is the language you’re programming in.

The free version offers you most of the features that you would normally need. If the features in free version does not satiate your requirements, you might consider a paid version. In contrast, offers a lot more advanced options like gradients, 3D Lightings (shadow, blur effect, glow effect and bevel), custom animations, in-built debuggers, more chart types, enhanced AJAX support, data-driven flash maps, loading into other Flash movies, personalized implementation support etc.

If you are interested, you may want to look at FusionCharts Google Gadget as well.

Requirements: Flash Support
Demo: http://www.fusioncharts.com/Free/Gallery.asp
License: License Free

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Sébastien Gruhier has always wanted to create a Class to handle in a easy way portal page like netvibes. After having tried to used Sortable of script.aculo.us, He decided to write his own Class. Prototype Portal Class allows users to drag and drop, re-arrange and remove any windows on the portal page. This is the first version he made. It has been tested on Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE 6/7. The first version is based on Prototype 1.5.1.1 but the next version will be based on 1.6.

Requirements: Prototype Framework
Demo: http://blog.xilinus.com/prototype-portal/test/index.html
License: MIT License

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Auction Ads display live relevant eBay Auctions on your website, when your site’s visitors click on an Auction Ad listing and take an action on eBay you earn cash. Actions are defined as a Winning Bid, a Buy-it-Now or a confirmed user registration. There are some big improvements to Auction Ads recently.

They have re-design the look of the ads and also have a nice raise in affiliate payouts. Effective immediately you will receive 5% instead of 2% of all revenue produced from publishers you refer with your affiliate link to AuctionAds for the first 6 months of the new publisher’s earnings!

Most importantly, I have received an emal from Auction Ads today. AuctionAds are now offering an instant $25.00 balance to all new publishers who sign up for AuctionAds this month! New publishers just need to sign up and they will receive a balance of $25.00 automatically. I have signed up straight away, why not give it a try now?

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: Sign Up Now
License: N/A

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With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from – live! The maps update themselves on your site without having to reload the whole page. The maps are customizable which you can choose different backgrounds, pin shapes and color schemes. Embeddable maps are available in two sizes, a full size version and a smaller version for sites that have lesser space. Just copy the code into your website to get it working.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://maps.amung.us/
License: License Free

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FastFind Menu Script is a javascript menu created by ActiveSpotLight under the BSD License. It pulls a content feed as data to populate the menu, this can be static or dynamic. The version they use internally uses JSON/XML as data feeds. This script allows for nested menus, based on dynamic Ajax responses. The menu can also be dragged/dropped by using the jQuery Interface Library. I really like the menu because it is very clean and smooth. It is very extremely useful for any web applications that has no space to place a menu.

FastFind Menu Script is still under development and has been tested in FF1.5-2, IE 6-7, Opera 9, and Safari. The current build has the following issues in Safari: Arrows do not appear to show in-menu versus external links, as appear in the other browsers.

Requirements: JQuery Framework and Interface for jQuery
Demo: http://labs.activespotlight.net/jQuery/menu_demo.html
License: BSD License

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I think many readers are familiar with this awesome Javascript CSS Menu by Devthought, but I really need to include it in WebAppers. Fancy Menu is nothing to do with Flash. it is a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends. It requires Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox and Safari
Demo: http://devthought.com/cssjavascript-true-power-fancy-menu/
License: License Free

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