Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Embedded Help System is “providing help where help is needed” concept that can be easily integrated into web interface. The point is to offer help to user in their working interface and actual situation.

jQuery E-Help is plugin for procedural (”How to …”) web user interface help and it’s easy to integrate into any web interface that supports Jquery. Useful for all web applications, CMS and E-commerce systems.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://embedded-help.net/
License: GPL, MIT License

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DHTMLX Touch is an HTML5-based JavaScript library for building mobile web applications. It’s not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allows you to create eye-catching, cross-platform web applications for mobile and touch-screen devices.

The framework is compatible with the major web browsers for mobile platforms. Applications built with DHTMLX Touch will run smoothly on iPad, iPhone, Android-based smartphones, and other popular devices.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.dhtmlx.com/touch/
License: GPL License

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ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more. ZABBIX software is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.zabbix.com/
License: GPL License

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Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the web in a flipbook layout. It was built using the jQuery library. It is licensed under both MIT and GPL licenses. Codrops has written a tutorial to show us how to use and customize it in order to create a virtual Moleskine notebook with jQuery Booklet.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/MoleskineNotebook/
License: MIT and GPL License

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jSnow is a jQuery plug-in that adds falling snow effect to your website, a very common decorative effect that every website needs for christmas! jSnow is lightweight (2kb), doesn’t require any external files to run (css or images) and it’s very easy to use!

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jSnow
License: GPL License

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OpenScholar is designed for academic environments as a tool for building academic web sites, such as a scholar’s personal site or an academic project site.

OpenScholar represents a paradigm shift in how the personal academic and research web sites are created and maintained. Built on the open-source framework Drupal, OpenScholar makes it possible to create academic web sites in a matter of seconds.

Each web site comes with a suite of powerful tools from which users can facilitate the creation, distribution, and preservation of knowledge faster and more efficiently than ever before. OpenScholar supports customizable domains for every site, so site owners can keep their current domain name.

Requirements: Drupal
Demo: http://openscholar.harvard.edu/
License: GPL v2.0 License

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jDownload is a plugin built to assist file downloads and make the download experience more informative and user friendly. jDownload is built on jQuery UI and displays a UI dialog with information on the downloadable file before asking the user to confirm the download. It is built on jQuery 1.4.2, jQuery UI 1.8.1. And it has been tested on Safari 4, Firefox 3, IE8, 7 & 6.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://jdownloadplugin.com/
License: GPL License

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The Lumebox is an Open-Source Lightbox clone written as a JavaScript jQuery plugin with a few added features. One of the main features is that it can parse RSS feeds just as easily as displaying images.

The Lumebox also searches the post or page for links leading to images (and RSS-feeds) and opens them in a popup instead of following them. The Lumebox was written using jQuery 1.4.3. The Lumebox plugin is released under the GNU GPL.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://anders.zakrisson.se/projects/lumebox/
License: GPL License

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FileUploader uses XHR for uploading multiple files with progress-bar in FF3.6+, Safari4+, Chrome and falls back to hidden iframe based upload in other browsers, providing good user experience everywhere. Drag-and-drop is supported in FF, Chrome too. This plugin is open sourced under GNU GPL 2 or later.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://valums.com/ajax-upload/
License: GPL License

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The lack of captions and subtitles on video is a major obstacle for people with hearing disabilities and a huge language barrier for the whole world. Universal Subtitles want to give individuals and communities the power to overcome these barriers. The tools they are building are free and open source and will make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative.

Universal Subtitles make it easy for anyone to add subtitles, captions, or translate nearly any video on the web. You add their widget to your videos. Then you and your viewers can add subtitles, which anyone can watch.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://universalsubtitles.org/
License: AGPL License

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