Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library. The CSS, XHTML and JavaScript are developed specifically to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0)

• Color is not the primary indicator & back-next navigation is either visible or hidden. You will also find a total number of news items indicator.
• Slider is compatible with resized fonts for people who have poor eye-site.

Website: http://www.reindel.com/accessible_news_slider/

A very nice content silder with auto sliding feature. CSS-tricks.com has created a nice and handy script for a featured content gallery, Its simple and effective.

Requirements: jQuery, jQuery Easing & Compatibility plugin, jquery Coda plugin

Demo: http://css-tricks.com/examples/FeaturedContentSlider/

Download Files: http://css-tricks.com/examples/FeaturedContentSlider.zip

The jQuery BlockUI Plugin lets you simulate synchronous behavior when using AJAX, without locking the browser. When activated, it will prevent user activity with the page (or part of the page) until it is deactivated. BlockUI adds elements to the DOM to give it both the appearance and behavior of blocking user interaction.

Website: http://malsup.com/jquery/block

Demo: http://malsup.com/jquery/block/#demos

If you want a curved edge for your element, the jQuery corner plugin can do it for you. This plugin dynamically generates and positions div elements to create very cool corners.

jQuery Corner is good because:

• It does not use any image.
• It is more SEO friendly because we don’t need any unnecessary markups in code. All code is generated dynamically and a search engine never sees that.
• Don’t need to worry about changing the background color as long as it is not a gradient.

Limitations:

The background should be a solid color (Should not be a gradient or background image).

Demo: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/corner/

This plugin wraps the jQuery UI datepicker into an interactive component specifically designed for choosing date ranges.

Features and Updates:

Uses jQuery UI 1.6rc4:

The range picker now uses the latest version of jQuery UI’s datepicker, and allows passing of native datepicker options.

Date.js Integration:

We’ve integrated the fantastic date.js library to allow for easy preset development.

Optional Range Advancing Arrows:

Optional forward and back arrows allow a user to jump forward and backward by range duration.

jQuery UI CSS Framework-Driven:

Our range picker uses jQuery UI CSS Framework classes, making it ThemeRoller-Ready.

This plugin requires jQuery and jQuery UI Datepicker. It also uses the jQuery UI CSS Framework as well as one additional custom CSS file. All these can be downloaded from the official site, Checkout the demo below.

Website: http://www.filamentgroup.com/

Demo: Check out this faboulous Date Range Picker

Scroll Follow is a jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls.

It is specially very suitable for the popular scrolling banners & menus.

The scrolling object can have several settings like the speed, easing, offset (number of pixels the Scroll Follow object should remain from top of viewport), container & more.

Requirements:-

- jQuery UI Core
- jQuery Easing plugin
- jQuery Cookie plugin

Website: http://kitchen.net-perspective.com/open-source/scroll-follow/

A very nice and easy tabbed navigation script with jQuery.

Website: http://trevordavis.net/blog/tutorial/jquery-tabbed-navigation/

Demo: http://trevordavis.net/play/javascript-tabbed-navigation/

OpenInviter is an open source PHP class, written in PHP5, for importing contacts from most of the well-known e-mail providers & social networks.

Such an invite feature is great, specially when presented as optional, to gain new users/visitors to any service.

There are already ready to use integrations for:

• Wordpress
• Drupal
• Joomla
• phpBB & more.

OpenInviter supports:

• Gmail
• Windows Live
• Yahoo
• Mail.com
• Facebook
• Friendster
• hi5
• Linkedin
• Twitter
• Myspace & more..

Requirements: PHP5 & cURL or wget

Website: http://openinviter.com/

Flash technology is an excellent way to create animated content among many other possibilities.Personally I prefer to use proprietary technologies.

Fortunately, every day there are new ways of doing the same thing, but using these standards and making presentations are more usable and accessible without sacrificing appearance. One such script is JS Coverflow with which we can implement an elegant image carousel.

Features:

• This tested browsers: Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3
• Only works with images with the same height and width
• Used easily with the mouse wheel or using the scroll arrows;
• Personalize the labels and the onclick event that fires in the center of the image in the foreground.
• This script has been tested with other libraries as Javascript: jQuery, MooTools, Dojo and Prototype.

Website: http://radnan.public.iastate.edu/coverflow/

One of the most used in the galleries that implements the library (library) Lightbox.

It is an interesting alternative to Lightbox since it has rounded edges and the overall appearance is somewhat different. This gallery is very easy to implement and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5.

Compatibility: All Major Browsers

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