jQuery Plugin Roundup 9: jQueryRotate, TagCanvas, Labelizer
Welcome to the jQuery Plugin Roundup, episode 9. Remember you can send your plugins in for review through our contact form or @dailyjs.
I’ve started including a note of each plugin’s license in these posts so you can avoid using ones with crazy neckbeard licenses.
jQueryRotate
jQueryRotate (MIT License) is a plugin created by Paweł Witkowski. It rotates images using JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas (or VML in IE).
It can rotate images statically, or with an animation:
$('#image').rotate(45)
$('#image').rotateAnimation(90)
The author has released several iterations of the plugin, fixing bugs and improving IE support.
TagCanvas
TagCanvas (LGPL v3) displays a 3D rotating tag cloud. It’s not amazingly useful, but does demonstrate how easy it is to do 3D effects with canvas
Labelizer
You’ve probably written various versions of this yourself — Labelizer (GPL 3.0, demo) displays a prompt inside an input until it is clicked. It’s easy to use:
$('input#test-input').labelize('Stuff text in me.');
