Scripts

A very useful little widget assembled with Prototype, script.aculo.usand PHPs imagemagick, this implementation allows one to crop and resize an image and then presumably save it to the server.

Pretty sure we'll be scooping this for image manipulation in our CMS.

An interesting, unobtrusive and "degradacefully" approach to using help boxes in forms. I'm sure someone will add a yellow fade to this as well, just for fun.

This library looks to be interesting: Behaviour lets you use CSS selectors to specify elements to add javascript events to. I haven't put it to the test yet (other than the demo), but this looks to be a very useful library for adding unobtrusive effects to your web applications via CSS selectors. Nice.

A clever little piece of Javascript that fetches (from Amazon or MSN) and displays the thumbnail image of a website linked to in an anchor. Check out the demo here.

Dustin Diaz "innovates the wheel" with Sweet Titles, his crack at unobtrusive fading tooltips, a javascript function that displays the title attribute content of anchors.

Well documented, researched and worth a visit, this article presents the usual javascript toogle with the unobtrusive (and accessible) twist.

Shows you how to build those toggle links without inline javascript and offers a nice, accessible fix for the window.onload issue, where there is a brief moment where all toggleable elements are visible, before they get hidden

Originally made hot by Basecamp, background fading to hilite edits or changes to content has caught on lately, and is particularly useful as a UI widget in Ajax based applications.

Over at axcentric, the Fade Anything Technique (FAT) looks to be a good implementation of this feature, as it requires no inline JavaScript, is background color aware and fades smoothly.

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a lightweight data inerchange format that can be used with xmlHTTPRequest (ie, JSON rather then XML). Works with many flavors of programming language.

Another "Basecamp Yellow Fade" script. As expected from Garrett, it's unobtrusive.

From the site: a little JavaScript number that will automatically add the yellow-fade technique to your pages without any inline JavaScript. All you have to do is link to the file from your page, and it will handle the rest.

An object-oriented Javascript library that includes effects that will be available in an upcoming version of Ruby on Rails, including Fade, Appear, Puff, Squish and Scale (see some demos here). That "Scale" example squishes like a bowl full of jelly.

Here's an excellent little javascript widget written by Simon Willison. It's a date text input that, along with a little javascript, will automatically format the date a user inputs to the format required for input. Did that make sense?