Knob is a jQuery plugin for creating an iPod-like interface element.
The knobs created with this plugin are easy to style. Although there isn’t a documentation, the plugin has few options and is easy to grasp from the example source.
Knob is a great way of spicing up an older design, and it’s especially useful when creating iOS apps, as iOS users are likely to be familiar with such UI elements.
string.js is a JavaScript library that adds extra string methods.
String manipulation is a daunting task, especially if you don’t know where to start, and string.js is just about the perfect library for everyday string manipulation tasks.
As everyone — I really mean everyone — who is a JS developer, needs to do some string magic at some time, and sometimes it’s hard to get through the logic and syntax through it.
String.js features several welcome methods for string manipulation:
Pep is a plugin for adding kinetic dragging to elements on HTML5-ready devices and desktops.
jQuery’s and CSS3′s animate functions are used behind the scenes (i.e., in the code) to great effect.
Pep comes with support for custom events, and allows constraining the “draggable” object to the borders of a set container.
Juice UI is a collection of WebForms that brings jQuery’s UI widgets to ASP.NET.
Juice allows creating flexible and interactive web apps with no fuss, by introducing additional functionality through jQuery’s widgets.
This seems like a ‘port’ that should have been rather anticipated, so its less-than-one-would-expect 59 watchers on GitHub can spark some thought at least.
jqFloat.js is a plugin for making elements ‘float’ in your web pages.
There are but a few options, all pertaining to the float area. The two available methods are used for stopping and starting the float animation.
jqFloat is admittedly a rather simple plugin, but it works amazingly well and can make for a welcome change in, for example, a loading screen for a game, or perhaps a 404 page like GitHub’s (they use parallax, though).
Meteor is a set of tools for building web applications that abide to contemporary standards.
Meteor is quite a revolutionary full stack framework that blurs the lines between the server and the client.
It runs on Node and has some bullet point-worthy features:
I could be mistaken, but features like authentication should definitely be handled by either other libraries or server-side. Just note that security question shouldn’t be taken lightly with Meteor.
Meteor is truly an interesting framework, though: it’s definitely something that’s easy to use for smaller apps, and time will tell if it fits the production environment as well.
EDIT: the devs have apparently addressed the database question: security features are to be added ‘soon’, but the devs, I think, will be facing myriad problems with row-level and column permissions within the database.
08 May, 2012
By Lauris Veips
