jQuery Roundup: jQuery 1.5.1 RC 1, betterflow.js, domsearch.js
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jQuery 1.5.1 RC 1 Released
jQuery 1.5.1 RC 1 is out, with over 30 bug fixes and improvements.
One fix that caught my eye was #8245: Ajax now ensures header names are capitalized so that non-compliant xhr implementations don’t override them — when writing the DailyJS framework tutorials I noticed that jQuery had these headers in lowercase, but other implementations capitalised them.
betterflow.js
betterflow.js (MIT License) by Rui Lopes is a coverflow-inspired plugin. The betterflow.js demo works pretty well with the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. It even works with horizontal mousewheel movements, which surprised me because this is what I instinctively tried to do when I loaded the page.
It expects some simple markup (Rui’s example uses an unordered list with divs and images), and then just a call to $("#example").betterflow();.
domsearch.js
domsearch.js (GitHub: juliocesar / jquery-domsearch, MIT License) by Julio Cesar Ody makes searching elements like tables very simple.
I’ve written things like this before, but with pretty basic search/sort algorithms. This plugin uses LiquidMetal:
Applications like Quicksilver, LaunchBar, and Launchy have made this method of keyboard entry a popular one. It’s time to bring this same functionality to web controls. LiquidMetal makes scoring long strings against abbreviations easy.
Given a set of elements, domsearch can be invoked like this:
$('#search').domsearch('table#fruits', {criteria: ['td.price', 'td.weight']});
This searches on two columns in the table.
There’s a lot of places where I could use this plugin, and it looks like the LiquidMetal author (Ryan McGeary) put some effort into performance.
