Three lightbox clones for Mootools

January 6, 2009 by admin · 3 Comments
Filed under: Galleries, MooTools 

Just like jQuery, Mootools also has some nice lightbox clones available.
When compared with jQuery alternatives, one option I found to be missing is the ability to resize image according to the browser window.

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Make curved corners with jQuery Corner plugin

January 4, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Effects, jQuery 

If you want a curved edge for your element, the best way is to use the jQuery corner plugin. This plugin dynamically generates and positions div elements to create very cool corners. Just checkout the demo page to see the various styles.

Why it is recommended?

  • It does not use any image.
  • It is more SEO friendly because we don’t need any unnecessary markups in code. All code is generated dynamically and a search engine never sees that.
  • Don’t need to worry about changing the background color as long as it is not a gradient.

Limitations

The background should be a solid color (Should not be a gradient or background image).
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Agile Carousel – Custom carousel with excellent options

January 4, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
Filed under: Effects, Galleries, jQuery 

Agile Carousel is a jquery plugin which enables you to create a custom carousel with many many different transition & easing options. It has lots of configurable options like customization of controls, timer, easing type, transition type etc. It does not require jQuery UI plugin but it is recommended for excellent transitions of slides.

We need to specify a directory where slides are stored. The slides can be (X)HTML, images or flash. Read more

Which is the best lightbox clone for jQuery ?

January 2, 2009 by admin · 10 Comments
Filed under: Galleries, jQuery 

Lightbox is a script made by Lokesh Dhakar which is one of the most popular way for showing images or image galleries. The original lightbox script was written using prototype and script aculous javascript libraries. So the main problem is, we need to include these two libraries (almost 100 KB) again even if we’re using jQuery. Certainly, this is not the best way. Thank fully, some programmers realized the situation and made the clones using jQuery. The effects and functionality are almost similar to lightbox but the only difference is, it uses jQuery library instead of prototype. The size of a compressed jQuery library is only 25KB.

Here, I am reviewing three of the lightbox clones. Read more

3 jQuery plugins to show context menu

December 29, 2008 by admin · 1 Comment
Filed under: jQuery 

A context menu (also contextual menu, shortcut menu and, popup menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right mouse click. Context menus offer a limited set of items that apply to the current state, or context, of the system or application in which the context menu is invoked

Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_menu)

Here is a review of 3 jQuery plugins that can override the browser default context menu with our own context menu. Read more

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