jQuery Plugin Roundup 16
Welcome to the jQuery Plugin Roundup, episode 16. Remember you can send your plugins in for review through our contact form or @dailyjs.
loopedSlider
Do you know how many plugins I’ve found that slide images from left-to-right? I’m not sure what compels so many people to write this plugin, but Nathan Searles has written another one and it seems nice enough. loopedSlider requires simple markup and only needs you to call ('#loopedSlider').loopedSlider() on the parent element.
Touchwipe
Touchwipe (MIT License) by Andreas Waltl makes detecting swipe events from touch screen devices easier. It’s a small plugin, so might be useful for projects where you want to add touch-screen gestures but don’t want to use a large library.
The API requires a container element, then callbacks for the supported events:
$(container).touchwipe({
wipeLeft: function() { },
wipeRight: function() { }
});
Sliding Form
Fancy Sliding Form with jQuery is an article about building a multi-part form with tabs that slides each part of the form horizontally. The tabs show a red mark when they’re invalid. The nice thing about this jQuery-based approach is it makes visualising the form completion progress easier than separate pages: any form can be completed in any order.
