Tooltipster is a powerful, flexible jQuery plugin enabling you to easily create semantic, modern tooltips enhanced with the power of CSS. Tooltipster allows you to use any HTML tag you can think of inside your tooltips. This means you can insert things like images and text formatting tags.
The style of your Tooltipsters can be easily changed by modifying the default Tooltipster theme in the tooltipster.css file. You also have the option to create and attach a brand new theme. Tooltipster’s options gives you a wide range of variables to tweak your tooltip to your heart’s content as well.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://calebjacob.com/tooltipster/
License: License Free
Unslider is the jQuery slider that just slides. No fancy effects or unnecessary markup, and it’s less than 3kb. It’s fluid, flexible, fantastically minimal. Unslider’s been tested in all the latest browsers, and it falls back magnificently for the not-so-latest ones.
If you want to, you can add keyboard arrow support. Not all slides are created equal, and Unslider knows it. It’ll stylishly transition heights with no extra code. You’ll be hard pressed to find a site that’s not responsive these days. Unslider’s got your back. It’s totally responsive.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://unslider.com/
License: License Free
jQuery.deviantartmuro is a jQuery plugin to provide a convenient wrapper around the embedding API for the deviantART muro HTML5 drawing application, allowing you to provide image drawing and editing within third-party sites.
Embedding deviantART muro in your site allows you to pass images from your site to deviantART muro, allow your users to edit those images, and then hand the saved image data back to your site. You can also make scripted use of a number of deviantART muro tools such as filters.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://deviantart.github.io/jquery.deviantartmuro/
License: Creative Commons, BSD License
Chardin.js is a jQuery plugin that creates a simple overlay to display instructions on existent elements. It is inspired by the recent Gmail new composer tour. It is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://heelhook.github.io/chardin.js/
License: Apache License 2.0
ScrollUp is a lightweight jQuery plugin to create a customisable “Scroll to top†feature that will work with any website, with ease. To create a visible line to help determin an ideal scroll distance from the top, assign a valid CSS colour to the activeOverlay setting.
ScrollUp is fully customisable through CSS which makes it simple to fit right into your project. Simply target the scrollUp’s generated ID in your CSS file and set your styles. It is released under MIT License.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://markgoodyear.com/2013/01/scrollup-jquery-plugin/
License: MIT License
Sidr is a handy jQuery plugin for creating side menus and the easiest way for doing your menu responsive. You will be able to create multiple sidrs on both sides of your web to make responsives menus or not, it works perfectly on desktop too.
There are two themes included with the plugin, a dark one and a light one. You can use them, create a new one or override them with your own styles. It is released under MIT License.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.berriart.com/sidr/
License: MIT License
As a long-running fan of practical jokes, I love April Fools’ Day. Fool.js is a jQuery plugin that lets you play one or more fun practical jokes on an unsuspecting visitor, and it’s crazy easy to set up. There’s a whole range of fun options to use.
You can make the scrollbar to fall over, Hide random elements as they interact, Sing Spongebob with your browser, Flip the page upside down, Make the page 100% editable, Makes the site flash on and off, Forces a shutter on the screen, Makes the page unclickable and etc…
The download link on the site was broken somehow. You can grab the source code here on Github. Have fun!
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://fooljs.com/
License: License Free
Swipebox is a touchable jQuery lightbox. It is a jQuery “lightbox” plugin for desktop, mobile and tablet. It supports Swipe gestures for mobile, Keyboard Navigation for desktop, CSS transitions with jQuery fallback, Retina support for UI icons, and Easy CSS customization.
It has been tested on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE8+, IOS4+, Android, windows phone. It is released under MIT License.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://brutaldesign.github.com/swipebox/
License: MIT License
Spoiler Alert is a happy little jQuery plugin to hide spoilers on your site. Don’t spoil it! Hide anything with a bit of blur. Hint on mouseover. Reveal on click.
To make your site spoiler free, simply include spoiler.js, then, add this somewhere: $(‘spoiler, .spoiler’).spoilerAlert(). To control the maximum and partial blurs, you can pass arguments to the function. Spoiler Alert has been tested in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Mobile Safari.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://joshbuddy.github.com/spoiler-alert/
License: MIT License
There’s no doubt about it. Wherever developers look and whoever they talk to, mobile is at the top of the list. Talk to a C-level executive, and the conversation turns to mobile, and the question “How do I get me some of that?†comes up. Talk to other developers, and they tell you they’re targeting mobile devices. Mobile has become a big deal as smartphones have taken hold in the consumer marketplace.
In the years leading up to the current focus on mobile applications and devices, Web developers have been adding more and more client-side functionality to their applications. You can see this in the use of client-side JavaScript libraries like jQuery.
With the growth of the market for mobile devices, the ability to create applications that run across platforms is very important for developers and for businesses that are trying to keep their expenses in check. There are a set of applications, mostly in the area of content consumption (think Amazon.com), that run well in a mobile Web browser. Unfortunately, there are differences between Web browsers on various mobile devices. The goal of the recently introduced jQuery Mobile (jQM) library is to provide cross-browser support to allow developers to build applications that can run across the various mobile Web browsers and provide the same—or at least a very similar—user interface.
The jQuery Mobile library was introduced in an alpha release in the fall of 2010 and released to manufacturing in November 2011. At the time of this writing, the current version of jQuery Mobile is 1.1.1. By the time you read this, jQuery Mobile will almost certainly have reached version 1.2.0. The library has been embraced by Microsoft, Adobe and other companies for mobile Web development. In August 2011, jQM had 32 percent market share compared with other mobile JavaScript frameworks such as iWebKit and jQTouch. This market share is impressive given that it started from zero little more than 12 months ago, and the 1.0 release is the first officially supported release. Read the rest of this entry »
