jQuery Roundup
Welcome to the jQuery roundup 36. You can send your plugins and articles in for review through our contact form or @dailyjs.
jQuery.highlightRegex
jQuery.highlightRegex (MIT License, demo) by Johann Burkard highlights text based on a regular expression:
$('selector').highlightRegex(/text/ig);
It’s the kind of thing I could imagine being useful in a web application that deals with a lot of text (like a notepad, ereader, etc.)
jQuery Weather Widget
The jQuery weather widget 1.0 (Creative Commons Attribution) by Seth Wright displays a nice little weather widget based on data from an XML file. The author uses PHP to parse the XML, but I thought a possible extension to the project would be to use jQuery.find to read the XML from a JSONP weather API (if there is one, if not a server-side component will be required).
Booklet
Booklet (dual MIT and GPL License) is a plugin by Will Grauvogel that displays content in a flip-book layout. There’s a tutorial that uses this plugin to create an impressive Moleskine-themed page: Moleskine Notebook with jQuery Booklet (demo).
The Booklet API is very simple:
$(function() {
$('#mybook').booklet({
width: 600,
height: 200
});
});
