30 recently created exceptional ajax javascript techniques

Posted by Michael
May 14, 2008

This article show you a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. (Via Noupe)

  1. Growl 2.0 with Mootools- Daniel Mota has created Growl 2.0 with Mootools, that is easily integrated into our web applications.
  2. Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery- An incredibly easy way of achieving tooltip like bubble popups that appears when you roll over link or a thumbnail.
  3. Sliding top panel using mootools- Antonio Lupetti explains how to release a simple sliding top panel (top/down) using mootools, some line of css code and JavaScript.
  4. Sliding top panel using mootools- How to recreate the menu on MooTools with the same effect … but in jQuery!
  5. Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery- How to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally doing the same thing using the jQuery library.
  6. Custom JavaScript Dialog Boxes- Leigeber has put together a lightweight (~4.5kb) JavaScript dialog box library. The script currently offers four dialog styles: alerts, warnings, prompts and success.
  7. Facebook Sliders With Mootools and CSS - A very simple 3-slider system that allows a user to modify the height, width, and opacity of an image using just sliders!
  8. Making a Javascript Video Player- How to create a pure (non-flash) JavaScript video player.
  9. Ajax mosaic builder- The function will load multiple images as a color pallet using BinFileReader and then arranged them in such an order that those images would look like one of the images in the pallet.
  10. jQuery flipv()- Accessible way to display vertical text line.
  11. Drag. Drop. Lock.- A nice tutorial for making quick drag and drop features in PHP.
  12. WebAppers Simple Javascript Progress Bar with CSS- WebAppers has created a simple and brilliant Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App
  13. moowheel- The purpose of this script is to provide a unique and elegant way to visualize data using Javascript and the <canvas> object.
  14. noobSlide- A Smooth Mootools Slide Show Image Galleries.
  15. Mocha UI- Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics.
  16. ddMenu- ddMenu is a simple MooTools-based script to create you’re own context menus.
  17. googleDrive- googleDrive is a little google maps mash up that allows you to drive a little car around on the maps.
  18. GlassBox- GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and “Flash-like” effects.
  19. ProtoFlow- ProtoFlow is a coverflow effect written in Javascript. It uses Prototype, Scriptaculous and also uses Reflection.js to do bulk of the work and it uses Reflection.js to do all the image reflections stuff!
  20. ASP.NET AJAX AutoComplete Control (Facebook look)- An ASP.NET AJAX extender that can be attached to any TextBox control.
  21. ADamnIT - JS error notification- A free reporting service that emails you when a JS error occurs in your webpages.
  22. Flexigrid- Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
  23. prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone- A jQuery lightbox clone with tons of features you would love to have.
  24. JavaScript Color Fading Script- This lightweight JavaScript allows for easy color transitions. Add fading effects to tables, divs and more. You can target an elements background, border or text color.
  25. Rotator- This small Javascript class, serves as a generic rotator for different kind of collections.
  26. Kotatsu - a simple html table generator- A nice tool to help create a table and throw in column classes quickly.
  27. jQuery virtual tour- This virtual tour plugin has the particularity to be accessible and can run even if javascript has not been activated.
  28. Usable directory listings with a little Dojo- A tutorial by Sam Foster to create directory listings with keyboard shortcuts. Just tab over to the box on the top right, and filter your selections.
  29. Cuzillion’- The tool lets you test out different techniques for optimizing performance in browsers, and these tests can be saved and shared by the community.
  30. The Sliding date-picker- GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and “Flash-like” effects.

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