Fotorama is a highly flexible image gallery plugin for jQuery that works in both desktop and mobile browsers. It offers multiple options for browsing through the images including thumbnails, prev-next buttons, swiping, slideshow or bullet navigation. The thumbnails can either be prepared and defined manually for maximum quality or the plugin will display a stretched [...]
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Stitches is an open source HTML5-powered application for creating CSS sprites on the fly. With the help of a couple HTML5 APIs, images can be drag 'n' dropped and the sprite image + CSS rules are instantly generated. It uses Modernizr to check for drag-and-drop, FileReader, and canvas support (which are currently available only in [...]
Sharrre is a jQuery plugin that eases creating social sharing widgets for Facebook,Twitter, Google Plus, Digg and Delicious. The plugin calls the social buttons on demand which is great for minimizing the number of initial requests and improving loading speeds. Any type of custom designs can be created for the widgets (no need to use [...]
Some of us are already familiar with Node.js and for some others, it is probably "another new development tool/language/standard that is getting popular but what the heck..". Node.js is really getting popular + being used more and more each day and it deserves this attention with the flexibility and performance if offers. What is Node.js? [...]
A website toolbar is something that can beautify or uglify web pages depending on the solution used and how it is configured. In order to improve the visibility of several things on WRD, last month, I have integrated, Skysa, a free-to-use (with paid plans) toolbar that can sit either in the header or footer of [...]
It seems like there is almost no limit in minimizing the weight of the web pages we are creating. For the JavaScript part, 140byt.es (a tweet-sized, fork-to-play, community-curated collection of JavaScript) is sharing a set of very useful tips for saving bytes. They are simply smart replacements for the functions, equations, loops, etc that we [...]
Desktop users are experienced enough to know how they can interact with a website, use shortcuts and get the most out of the browser. For touch-enabled interfaces, things are different. There is a new question: "which gestures are supported by the app/website?". Cue is a free (public domain) gestural icon system that aims to build [...]
Countdown.js is a JavaScript library for calculating and displaying the timespan between two dates. The library calculates the value continuously considering "the time goes on" and keeps generating an accurate output. It can provide the timespan in many formats like milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and even millennias. There are methods for displaying it [...]
Icons 8 is a regularly updated set of beautiful icons that are inspired from the Windows 8 interface. Currently, there are 140+ items where 3 new ones are added each day (users can send suggestions for new icons). They are in transparent PNG format with 26*26px size and come in black&white colors. There are icons [...]
If you are developing mobile web applications, you already experienced the difficulty of debugging them. iWebInspector is a free tool for debugging, profiling and inspecting web applications that run on iOS Simulator (iPhone or iPad). The tool simply attaches the Web Inspector to any tab opened in Safari for iOS, to a chrome-less web app [...]
