Javascript


Parallax is a cool tool from Stephen Band. Think of looking through a camera and having layers of objects at various distances moving around. This library achieves that effect using multiple using static images, one for each layer.

"Parallax is [a jQuery library that] turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way."


Apture is a new web service that allows you to provide contextual links using an AJAX layer to display content from sites such as wikipedia. So when you see the little icons next to terms (like the AJAX and Wikipedia links) you can click those links to view content from Wikipedia. Nice.

I can't wait to try Scrybe. Best DOM scripting/AJAX I've seen on personal information management software. Google should buy these guys because they really seem to have gotten the interaction right.


A method for creating alternating colors in table rows using JavaScript and CSS.

Calendar script that lets users pick a date from either a popup or flat (in the page) calendar.

Feed to JS is a PHP script that takes an RSS feed, converts it to a JavaScript that can be used to display the items as HTML.

Javascript that works with MovableType and Textile comments to show a live preview of how textile formatting will appear when submitted.

Simple JS CSS hierarchical menu using HTML list items, JS, CSS.

A function to show an ‘image loading…’ message and subsequent fade-in of a photo.

JavaScript library for making tables sortable.