links for 2009-11-25

A common feature I've seen on “web 2.0” sites and wikis is the "external link" icon: external link. While I'm not crazy about the idea of sticking these little images all over the HTML, they're a great candidate for using progressive enhancement. In our case, we can use jQuery to add the images pretty easily.

Horinaja is a ready-to-use slide-show implementation, utilizing either scriptaculous/prototype or jQuery. A running example above

Horinaja is innovative because it allows you to use a mousewheel for navigation.

When the mouse is outside of the slide-show area, it scrolls. When hovering over the slide-show, the scrolling pauses.

Upload multiple files it outputs a css sprite with the code behind it.

A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone,
iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.

Here we present 45 very useful development tools such as grids, image solutions, typography, iPhone tools, HTML 5 helpers, testing resources, WordPress tools and helpers, CSS code tools and other further useful tools, time savers and resources. Enjoy this web development goodies bag!

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