Transformie is a jQuery javascript plugin that comes in less than 5k, you embed into web pages and that brings you CSS Transforms by mapping the native IE Filter API to CSS transitions as proposed by Webkit. You are able to you to use CSS transforms in Internet Explorer by mapping the native IE Filter API to CSS transitions. It supports the functions including rotate; scale, scaleX, scaleY; skew, skewX, skewY & matrix (with the exception of the last two modifiers, tx and ty) in degrees, radians or grads. It has been tested in Internet Explorer 6 + 7 and does nothing in other web browsers.
Blockster is a Javascript transition effect designed for “featured content” rotators or slideshows. Its underlying concept is to transition between one element to the next block by block. It’s a jQuery lightweight plugin for creating featured content sliders with beautiful effects. It is highly customisable in terms of how many blocks are involved, whether they fade in or simply appear, whether they appear in order or randomly, and more. It rotates a a series of divs and displays any side info by pausing for a given period between each other. The plugin has 2 effects which simply makes the transition between one element to the next block by block but results in an impressive look. You can customize Blockster transition effects by defining the number of rows, columns and the speed.
Developed by Brian Landau, jMapping is jQuery plugin that you can use to quickly create web pages that implements a Google Maps by specifying list of the locations in your HTML. You have to make sure your HTML markep has a DIV element for the Google map, and there is a container element with some locations and their data. It is a cross browser plugin that works in all major browsers including IE6. The plugin is fairly easy to setup and you can add info bubbles and embed HTML inside of the info-bubbles in an easy clean manner. jMapping is easy to implement, feature rich plugin powered by jQuery Metadata, MarkerManager, and MapIconMaker plugins. It offers several configuration options, object and event APIs; enabling you to customize it according to your needs. jMapping jQuery Plugin is available for download under MIT License.
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Simple Slide is a lightweight (15kB for the full version, and a minute 6kB for the hyper-compressed version) jQuery plugin for creating functional slideshows. You can easily setup multiple SimpleSlides since it only require nested “divs” with specific class names and “rel” values to group various slides together. It also provides few configuration options to customize the animation speed, size of the status element, and status bar colors. Some of its features including: ability to add any type of content in the slide window; supports full screen display in full browser window and swipe functionality; provides status display that configures itself; AJAX page loading; callback function support; and cross-browser tested in all modern web browsers includes Firefox 3+, IE 7 & 8, Google Chrome 5+, Safari 4+ and Opera 9+. There is a instruction to help you install SimpleSlide on WordPress powered sites as well. SimpleSlide was built for jQuery 1.4. SimpleSlide is available for free to download, you can find more information such as features, setting up and demos on its official site.
Pikachoose is a jQuery Javacript library image gallery that offers a number of options for displaying your pictures like slideshows. It’s a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows you to easily create photo galleries with customization options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. It also allows you to add more than one image gallery in a single page. Pikachoose is a cross-browser jQuery plugin that works in all modern web browsers.
Pickachoose is easy to implement that requires simple markup including an unordered list containing images and captions. You can also customize the look and feel of the gallery or slideshow by editing CSS. It offers configuration options enabling you to customize various features as well. Version 3.2 of PikaChoose jQuery image gallery is now available to download.
