JSLardo is a interesting “social” CMS, based on NodeJS and mongodb; it uses Jade for templates.
jslardo requires users to register and allows them to create not only content, but create models, views, websites and pages.
That’s indeed an interesting sidestep from the usual way content management systems run–and only time will show whether the “JSLardo” way will become popular.
slabText is a jQuery plugin for creating responsive headlines.
slabText is actually a JS port of the elderly slabtype algorithm.
The library is inspired by FitText that we’ve covered earlier, but it’s different in some aspects:
Overall, the library is a very good solution for creating awesome, responsive headlines; and the breakpoint system (plus other nifty features) help a lot.
vkBeautify is a JavaScript plugin for beautifying XML and JSON text.
“Beautifying” is quite an abstract term, but, in this case, it deals with simply making the text more readable by separating it into a syntax you’re used to.
We covered jQuery.Download recently, and as far as I remember, the files downloaded with that library contained less-than-decent-looking code, so that’s just one use for this plugin.
vkBeautify has a single function, and has an optional ‘preserve whitespaces’ option.
Collapse is a jQuery plugin for creating progressive disclosure designs.
Basically, Collapse provides a nice, lightweight (600b) solution for expanding and collapsing website content.
What’s the best about progressive disclosure interfaces is that they don’t confuse the users with any information they don’t need at hand.
The additional elements can be shown with a transition, e.g., a sliding motion.
Collapse features a number of options and callbacks (cookie support is notable) thus it’s suitable for creating even the fanciest of web apps.
Acorn Media Player is a full-scale HTML5 media player.
Acorn doesn’t provide fallbacks, but there’s a logical reason behind it: as videos are marked up with the default <video> tag, you can easily choose your own fallback method.
Among the notable features of the Acorn media player are:
Overall, Acorn is a very promising media player, and it’s definitely a top pick for any page where you want to implement non-YouTube video clips.
Scrollorama is a jQuery plugin for creating transition effects while scrolling.
Scrollorama uses lettering.js; it allows using every numeric CSS property for transitions while users scroll down the page.
Scrollorama can be used by itself or as a part of some bigger plugin — check out Scrolldeck.js (from the same author) which uses Scrollorama and achieves great results.
03 February, 2012
By Lauris Veips
