EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it. EpicEditor allows you to create a Markdown editor with a single line of JavaScript.
Best jQuery Ajax Plugins & Tutorials with Demo
jMapping : jQuery plugin for creating Google Maps from semantic markup
This plugin is designed for quick development of a page that implements a Google Map with a list of the locations that are specified within the HTML.
The plugin tries to allow as much graceful degradation as possible by having the HTML be as semantic as possible. The plugin expect the HTML for the locations to be grouped under a common element. Additionally, it expects the links and Map Info Window content to be grouped under the location elements. It also expects the necessary metadata to be on the location element. This way the HTML semantically reflects that all of those parts and information are associated with the specific location or place.
How to grab Dribbble feed with jQuery and CSS3
As a web developer, third party API integration is something you will have to face. Especially with the current trend, we have facebook, twitter, flickr etc. Today, we are going to look at dribbble’s API. Dribbble is a place to show off your design, it’s based on invitation basis, therefore, most designs are of high quality.Dribbble API documentation is pretty neat and straight forward, it’s still in Beta stage at the moment, but it’s pretty stable and easy to use.
However, we will not retrieve it directly from Javascript, we call it using PHP to solve AJAX cross domain issue. I wrote a simple PHP proxy to retrieve the JSON data from dribbble. It’s not the best PHP script (it’s very rough!), but it will do the job just fine. You can enhance the PHP from here such as adding cache control to reduce number of call to dribbble, and perhaps, make it a little bit more secure.
Animating Colored Ajax Comments with jQuery
There are plenty of social networking websites today where you can find dynamic Ajax-based comments. This system is more usable because you don’t need to refresh the page every time you post something new. However setting up a whole database for user comments from scratch can be difficult.
In this tutorial I want to look at using jQuery just for animating custom comments. The form will submit each post anonymously and won’t save anything to a local database. The effects are only for show – but you can easily adopt the dynamic code into a system such as WordPress, vBulletin, Joomla!, or even your own custom backend.
Infinite Ajax Scroll, a jQuery plugin
Infinite Ajax Scroll is a plugin that turns you existing pagination into an infinite scrolling one, with ease.
Features
- Infinite scrolling increases usability for you visitors, by removing an extra click
- Increase average time spent on your website by visitors
- Graceful degration for browsers without JavaScript
- Allows for multiple instances, like for posts and comments
- Easy to implement
- Clearly coded and well documented
- Similar technique as seen on Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader and many more…
Mobile App Design/Dev: Building Navigation with jQuery
Smartphones are now equipped with some very efficient web browsers. JavaScript is more powerful than ever before, and can be extended with the help of code libraries such as jQuery. When you add in the latest HTML5/CSS3 specs, it’s possible to build very snappy mobile web apps with some basic frontend code.
In this tutorial I’ll show how you can build a mobile-based website/webapp. We’ll use CSS3 media queries for targeting specific devices and screen resolutions. Plus a bit of jQuery helps to animate the menu and load external page content using Ajax calls. Even better, the layout can even expand to display properly in regular desktop browsers such as Chrome or Firefox.
jQTouch : Zepto/jQuery plugin for mobile web development
jQTouch is a JavaScript plugin which works with either Zepto.js or jQuery, and comes with smooth animations, navigation, and themes for mobile WebKit browsers (as found in iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and WebOS).
Features:
- Easy to install. Get up and running in a few minutes.
- Entirely customizable with selector options
- Theme support, including default Apple and jQTouch custom themes
- Callback functions throughout, including swipe and orientation change detection
- Page history management and CSS3 page transitions, including 3D flip, cube, and swap
- Failover to 2D animations for devices that don’t support 3D
- Easily allow apps to run in fullscreen mode with custom icons and startup screens
- The power of jQuery to build AJAX applications
Smart Cart : Feature rich jQuery plugin for Shopping Cart
Smart Cart is a flexible and feature rich jQuery plug-in for shopping cart. It makes the add-to-cart section of online shopping much easy and user friendly. It is compact in design, very easy to implement and only minimal HTML required.
The selected items in the cart are accessible as an array of product/quantity pair delimited with ‘|’ on submit form or when checkout event is triggered. Smart Cart 2 have a simple and compact design with tabbed interface to saves space.
Features (Smart Cart 2.0):
- Easy to implement, minimal HTML required
- Clean and compact design, tabbed design saves space
- Product search and Category filter enables easy and fast access to the product what users are looking for
- Automatically calculates subtotal and total
- Quantity is editable from the cart list
- Event support, custom Ajax feature and validation can easily implement using the events
- Product Image display and expanded tool tip display
- Can implement multiple cart on same page
- Template option, for easily customizing product display details
- Pre-populate products on cart on page load
Smart Wizard : jQuery plugin that gives wizard like Interface
Smart Wizard is a flexible jQuery plug-in for wizard like interface. It allows to group contents into sections and so it saves page space and also gives a neat and stylish interface for users. Using Smart Wizard 2.0 you can easily do input validation and so it is good for user registration and kind of tasks.
Features:
- Easy to implement, Minimal HTML required.
- Ajax contents loading option.
- Cool animation effects on step navigation. (none/fade/slide/slideleft)
- Keyboard navigation option.
- Horizontal and vertical style step anchors.
- Easy step input validation option
- Option to highlight error steps
- In-built message box
- Easy navigation with step anchors and navigation buttons
- Can have multiple wizards on same page
- Option to enable all steps on first load
Ajaxml : The new standard to implement AJAX with jQuery
AjaxML was designed to decrease development time of Ajax requests, as it was measured to reduce development time upto 60% from time consumed using normal jQuery ajax.We take care of forms submitting with Ajax as hyperlinks. We know that you need ajax uploading to be easy and without using many third-party libraries. AjaxML does the job along.
One of the problems of ajax requests is bookmarking feaure loss, and broswer history support is another headache. Using AjaxML, you can just mention what is the hash value for your link,
and that’s it.
