jQuery Roundup: 1.6.2 RC 1, jquery-lifestream, Better-Autocomplete
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jQuery 1.6.2 RC 1
jQuery 1.6.2 RC 1 was released last week. This version is a maintenance release, with bug fixes for IE, and a long-standing animation bug that I ran into recently.
jquery-lifestream
jquery-lifestream (GitHub: christianv / jquery-lifestream, License: CC Attribution 3.0 Unported) by Christian Vuerings displays a list of activity for lots of social networks, including Twitter, Last.fm, Pinboard, and GitHub. The author has even made a little tool that can be used to create a lifestream.
Usage is straightforward:
$("#lifestream").lifestream({
"list":[
{
"service": "github",
"user": "christianv"
},
{
"service": "twitter",
"user": "denbuzze"
}
]
});
Better-Autocomplete
Better-Autocomplete (License MIT and GPL) by Didrik Nordström is an autocompletion plugin that supports searching arrays, objects, and remote JSON data out of the box:
var colors = [
{
title: 'Red',
description: 'The color of the heart.'
},
'Yellow', // You can even mix real result objects with plain strings
{
title: 'Green',
description: 'If you look at your plants, they will likely be green.'
}
];
$('#color').betterAutocomplete('init', colors, { charLimit: 1 }, {
select: function(result) {
$('#color').blur();
alert('You selected ' + result.title);
}
});
$('#geonames').betterAutocomplete('init', 'http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON' // ...
It makes creating “rich” result sets quite easy — try the colours example to see what I mean. This plugin also has documentation.
Although Better-Autocomplete only targets modern browsers and the author admits IE support isn’t a priority, it seems lean and well made.
