Weekend Links – jQuery Progress Bar, jQuery Kwicks, Bill Gates Email, MooTools Plugins

By David Walsh on June 28, 2008

jQuery Progress Bar 1.1

This jQuery progress bar is as good as it gets. The progress bar animates to the next step and is very lightweight.

http://t.wits.sg/2008/06/20/jquery-progress-bar-11/

Jeremy Martin has released a new version of his jQuery Kwicks plugin. Jeremy's added more options and smoother animations.

Wow, even Bill Gates dislikes Microsoft-created software.

There are time when firing a client is necessary. This article explains when, why, and how.

Moo wants you! Send your MooTools plugins to the Moo team!

By David WalshAugust 15, 2011
Send Text Messages with PHP
Kids these days, I tell ya. All they care about is the technology. The video games. The bottled water. Oh, and the texting, always the texting. Back in my day, all we had was...OK, I had all of these things too. But I still don't get...
By David WalshApril 15, 2015
fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it, XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...

By David WalshMarch 28, 2011
Create a Spinning, Zooming Effect with CSS3
In case you weren't aware, CSS animations are awesome. They're smooth, less taxing than JavaScript, and are the future of node animation within browsers. Dojo's mobile solution, dojox.mobile, uses CSS animations instead of JavaScript to lighten the application's JavaScript footprint. One of my favorite effects...
By David WalshFebruary 7, 2011
Translate Content with the Google Translate API and JavaScript
Note: For this tutorial, I'm using version1 of the Google Translate API. A newer REST-based version is available. In an ideal world, all websites would have a feature that allowed the user to translate a website into their native language (or even more ideally, translation would be...

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