A collection of useful links by and for professional web designers and developers.

Respond.js: Fast CSS3 Media Queries for Internet Explorer 6-8 and more

Submitted 2 years and 100 days ago (more from filamentgroup.com)

Responsive Web Design may just be the most practical and forward-looking way to address the multitudes of devices and browsers that reach your site. But lack of native CSS3 Media Query support in Internet Explorer 8 and under presents a serious challenge to the technique. Scott Jehl has released a script to address the problem, and also achieves mobile-optimized filesize (3kb / 1kb gzipped).

Isotope

Submitted 2 years and 103 days ago (more from isotope.metafizzy.co)

An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts. Enables filtering, sorting, and dynamic layouts.

JavaScript Libraries Deconstructed

Submitted 2 years and 109 days ago (more from keyframesandcode.com)

The Deconstructed series is designed to visually and interactively deconstruct the internal code of JavaScript libraries, including jQuery, Prototype and MooTools. It breaks the physical JavaScript into visual blocks that you can easiliy navigate. Each block opens to reveal its internal code. Clickable hyperlinks allow you to follow program flow.

jQuery Frontier Calendar - Full month calendar that looks like Google Calendar

Submitted 2 years and 116 days ago (more from code.google.com)

All UI elements such as next-month & previous-month buttons, add event form, edit event form, tooltips, etc, are not part of the calendar plugin. These are to be created by you so you can control how they look. Use the API hooks in your form elements to control the calendar.

jQuery Script to Automatically Preload images from CSS

Submitted 2 years and 121 days ago (more from filamentgroup.com)

a jQuery plugin that automatically preloads all images referenced in CSS files. We've found the script to be incredibly helpful in developing snappy applications where images are always ready when we need them. This will parse though all of your attached CSS files and preload any images it finds referenced in them.

janky.post - cross domain javascript

Submitted 2 years and 121 days ago (more from saunter.org)

A javascript library that simplifies cross-domain request/response communication using regular GET/POST for the request and an easy to implement response format. There are many different ways to do cross-domain communication in javascript but they all have tradeoffs. janky.post tries to fix some of these drawbacks.

VideoJS - HTML5 Video Player

Submitted 2 years and 124 days ago (more from videojs.com)

VideoJS is an HTML5 Video Player with 3 core parts: An embed code (Video for Everybody), a Javascript library (video.js), and a pure HTML/CSS skin (video-js.css). Using Video for Everybody as the embed code means you know it’s compatible with many devices (including ones without javascript). The javascript library fixes browser & device bugs, and makes sure your video is even more compatible.

Zombie.js - Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js

Submitted 2 years and 138 days ago (more from zombie.labnotes.org)

A lightweight framework for testing client-side JavaScript code in a simulated environment. No browser required.

DHTMLX Touch - JavaScript Framework for Mobile and Touch Devices

Submitted 2 years and 140 days ago (more from dhtmlx.com)

An HTML5-based JavaScript library for building mobile web apps. It’s not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allows you to create eye-catching, cross-platform web apps for mobile and touch-screen devices. Is compatible with the major web browsers for mobile platforms. Applications built with DHTMLX Touch will run smoothly on iPad, iPhone, Android-based smartphones, and others

Website Tour with jQuery

Submitted 2 years and 142 days ago (more from tympanus.net)

Create a tour on a website with jQuery. This can be very useful if you want to explain your users the functioning of your web application in an interactive way. The idea is to add a certain class to elements that you want to guide the user through and explain what they do. We will use a tooltip to show what that tour point is about and navigation will allow the user to go back/forward/end/restart.