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There is a bunch of Lightbox style jQuery plugins, from the original Lightbox to some of the new alternatives such as FancyBox. So why another jQuery plugin? Well, at around 1kb(546 bytes gzipped) minified, SimpleBox is extremely light and provides you with a nice little dialog for your confirmation messages, forms and just about anything where a full LightBox is just overkill.

Using SimpleBox is extremely simple too, include the JS file, one image, and a couple of lines of CSS …

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A couple of days ago I was watching a talk by Paul Irish at the jQuery Boston Conference. During his talk he mentioned video for everybody. Now, Video for Everyone does not use JavaScript to achieve it’s objective but simply a predefined chunk of HTML.

I thought I would take a stab at creating a jQuery plugin that would do something similar to Video for Everybody but instead, for audio. Because I am using JavaScript and not a chunk of HTML to …

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Recently I posted two articles about one of the new official jQuery plugins called jQuery Templates here and here. Another of these plugins is the jQuery DataLink plugin (Download from GitHub). Essentially what the DataLink plugin does is create a two way, although you can configure it to be one-way only, link between a JavaScript object, a form and it’s elements. So what do I mean by this exactly? Well, it means that when any of the values in the form …

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A couple of days ago I read an article on Site Sketch 101 about automatically adding image attribution, when using images from for example the Flickr Creative Commons licensed images, to these images using PHP. This made me think, it should not be to difficult to create the same functionality using jQuery and the rel attribute. With that, I set out to create a small and simple jQuery plugin that will do just that. The end result is, no surprise here, the jQuery …