Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

scripty2 is a complete rewrite of the venerable script.aculo.us library. It is a powerful, flexible JavaScript framework to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces.

However, scripty2 is still in a prerelease alpha version and not meant for production use at the moment. Even in alpha, the effects engine can now do so much more, with less code to write.

Requirements: Prototype Framework
Demo: http://scripty2.com/demos/cards/
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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Komodo Media has developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. The Social Network Icon Pack consists of 40+ 16 pixel x 16 pixel icons and 40+ 32 pixel by 32 pixel icons all in 32-bit PNG format. Social Network Icon Pack is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/social…
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. First of all, you can load a random example image or upload your own image. Resize & drag the box to change the pattern. And then save your design and download the pattern to your computer.

Patterns generated with the Repper tool are freely available to everybody under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. This means that you can use it for your own personal projects for free.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://repper.studioludens.com
License: Creative Commons License

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Recently, I have been doing research on Web Caching. And I have found Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters , which is a detailed, informational document published by Mark Nottingham.

A Web cache sits between one or more Web servers and a client or many clients, and watches requests come by, saving copies of the responses — like HTML pages, images and files — for itself. Then, if there is another request for the same URL, it can use the response that it has, instead of asking the origin server for it again.

Web Caching can reduce latency, because the request is satisfied from the cache instead of the origin server, it takes less time for it to get the representation and display it. This makes the Web seem more responsive.

And also, Web Caching can reduce network traffic, because representations are reused, it reduces the amount of bandwidth used by a client. This saves money if the client is paying for traffic, and keeps their bandwidth requirements lower and more manageable.

You can also get more information about the type of web caches, how web caches work, how to control them, tips for building a cache-aware site and etc…

Source: Caching Tutorial for Web Auhors and Webmaters
License: Creative Commons License

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There are some pretty patterns for you again. Milleseicentopercento looks very simple with a full page of professional patterns. Simply right-click on the pattern and save it as an image file. You can easily decorate your background with these nice patterns. All of these patterns are released under Creative Commons License.

Feel free to view other free patterns on our Textures and Patterns Section.

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Demo: http://www.noqta.it/dromoscopio/
License: Creative Commons License

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OmniGrid is an advanced DataGrid based on Mootools, developed by Marko Šantić from Omnisdata Ltd. It is inspired by two similar components: FlexGrid jQuery and phatfusion:sortableTable and partly use their source code. It’s developed because of lack of powerful DataGrid for Mootools 1.2 library. OmniGrid is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Requirements: Mootools Framework
Demo: http://www.omnisdata.com/omnigrid/
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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After publishing Mootools ContextMenu few days ago, our reader, Temuri has suggested another really nice looking context Menu using Mootools which is called Mif.Menu. There are ART style and shadow style context menu for you to choose from. It supports multi-level and key navigation as well. Mif.Menu is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

Requirements: Mootools Framework
Demo: http://mifjs.net/trunk/menu/Demos/index.html
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License

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TinyTable is a JavaScript table sorter script is easy to use and feature packed at only 2.5KB. There are many features great include column highlighting, optional pagination, support for links, date/link parsing, alternate row highlighting, header class toggling, auto data type recognition and selective column sorting. Also, the table styling is completely customizable via the CSS.

TinyTable has been tested in Firefox 2/3, IE 6/7/8, Opera, Safari and Chrome. This script is available free of charge any project, personal or commercial, under the creative commons license and is offered AS-IS, no free support provided.

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Demo: http://sandbox.leigeber.com/table-sorter/index.html
License: Creative Commons License

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JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required. Just include the scripts, prepare your chart data in XML or JavaScript Array and your chart is ready.

JS Charts lets you create charts in different templates like bar charts, pie charts or simple line graphs. It’s compatible with most web browsers. And it is It’s free to use and watermark-free.

Requirements: Firefox 1.5 +, IE 6, Safari 3.1 +, Opera 9 +
Demo: http://www.jscharts.com/examples
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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After the success of Blogging Icons, Blog Perfume has just released Social Media Icons Pack which comes in really handy when integrating social media sites to your blog.

Social Media Icons Pack includes 3 sizes for 17 icons: 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32. There is an icon for the following: Blogger, Delicious, DesignFloat, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, a heart icon that will work for anything (such as bookmark), MySpace, Reddit, an RSS icon, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo! and YouTube.

These icons are released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. You are free to use them on both personal and commercial projects.

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Demo: http://www.blogperfume.com/social-media-icons…
License: Creative Commons License

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