December 11th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Here’s a pretty spectacular JS based image gallery with source. The entire gallery is a 3d fish eye interface. It’s incredibly easy to use, visually impressive and toolkit agnostic. It’s performance isn’t as good as some flash based options & I personally find some of the translucency to be distracting rather than conducive to the design. All in all, this is a great gallery widget for those times you need something more impressive than traditional carousels & lighbox / thickbox implementation Check it out here: http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/ via webappers
December 7th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht
Alright, so sometimes you need to throw a little extra style into a project, a bevel there, rounded corner here. Proto.Corners allows you to simply generate them programatically. Get it at nurey.com
November 29th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Niall Doherty just released a minor update to the powerful & sexy jQuery CodaSlider widget. The version 1.1.1 release increases the visual styling capabilities of the widget by adding more css support.
Not a major update, but the drop in nature and dramatically increased styling ability make this an obvious addition to any projects currently using the widget.
Get it at ndoherty.com:
November 26th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Stu Nicolls released this excellent CSS menu. It’s javascript free and provides incredibly rich interaction for something solely CSS based.
Check it out here: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/pro_drop6#nogo53
November 19th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

David Spurr’s Image Cropper is a powerful and easy to use widget for image cropping.
Some Features:
- Un-obtrusive
- Selection can be moved & resized
- Drag & Drop interface
- Size can be restricted to ratio
- Size can be restricted to minimum dimensions
- Size can be restricted to maximum dimensions
- Dynamic Preview
- All operations bounded by image
Get it here: http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/javascript-image-cropper-ui-using-prototype-scriptaculous/
November 15th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Following in his tradition of delivering, simple, easy to use widgets for beautiful design driven development, Brian McAllister has released this spectacular table widget.
Here are some of the key features:
- Unobtrusive and nameSpace friendly
- Powerful Zebra Striping Support
- Supports row hover and column hover effects
- The “current” cell can be highlighted
- Multiple Rows can be selected / highlighted
- Intelligently deals with rowSpans and ColSpans
- Table rows can be selected “onclick” with callback support
- Extremely fast & responsive
Check it out at http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2007/11/15/unobtrusive-table-actions-script
November 13th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

As excellent as Xinha, YUI RTE, Tiny MCE, FCK & the other heavyweight Rich Text Widgets are, they can be massive overkill for many projects Weighing in at only 7k (uncompressed). This jQuery Editor is an incredibly light weight and responsive alternative to the big guns for most projects.
Features:
- Stylesheet based formatting
- Image support
- Link Support
- Strong, emphasis
- Bulleted list
- Source view
Supported Browsers
- IE6+
- Safari 3+
- Firefox
- Opera
Check it out online here:
http://batiste.dosimple.ch/blog/posts/2007-09-11-1/rich-text-editor-jquery.html
November 13th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Plotr is an excellent charting library built in prototype. It outputs to a Canvas / SVG drawing object. (IE 6+ Support is powered by the ExplorerCanvas library).
It currently supports:
- Bar Charts
- Line Charts
- Pie Charts
- Chart Legends
All in all, it’s an excellent lightweight library for adding basic data visualization capabilities to your app. More importantly, the chart’s it generates are simply stunning, complete with drop shadows, white outlines, & well designed default color schemes.
Check it out online here:
http://solutoire.com/plotr/
November 12th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht
Ingrid is a wonderfully feature rich Table Widget built in jQuery.
Features
- Row striping (complex patterns supported)
- Sorting (Server Side)
- Column resizing
- Row & Column Styling
- Beautiful default design
Ingrid’s biggest strength & biggest weakness is its focus on server side data manipulation. In a world where table widgets that support page views of data are less & less common, this is a welcome surprise. It’s also a weakness and overkill for small data sets. Over all, it’s a handy table widget to add to your toolkit.
http://www.reconstrukt.com/ingrid/
November 7th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht
This Plugin Is Deprecated: Please Checkout jQuery Serial Scroll
ScrollShow is a unique photo gallery implementation that uses scrolling to display the items. It’s similar to a carousel implementation, but simpler and more flexible.
Check it out here:
http://flesler.blogspot.com/search/label/jQuery.ScrollShow