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jQuery Roundup: jQuery 1.8, BBSearch, MDMagick, Document-Bootstrap, DownloadBuilder.js

14 Aug 2012 | By Alex Young | Tags jquery plugins backbone.js sessionStorage files
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jQuery 1.8

jQuery 1.8 has been released. jQuery 1.8 makes some fairly significant changes:

  • The selector engine has been rewritten
  • Animations have been reworked
  • .css and .animate will automatically add vendor prefixes
  • The size has been reduced compared to jQuery 1.7.2
  • Grunt build system

BBSearch

BBSearch (GitHub: fguillen / BBSearch, License: CC BY 3.0) by Fernando Guillen is a find-as-you-type style plugin that’s designed to work with Backbone.js. It can also work with JSONP APIs, and the author has included demos that use GitHub and Twitter.

$('#search-input-1').bbsearch({
  url: 'https://api.github.com/legacy/repos/search/#bbsearch-query#?callback=?&'
, itemTemplate: '<p>[@<%= owner %>] <a href="<%= url %>"><%= name %></a></p>'
, resultsElement: $('#results-1')
, parse: function(response) { return response.data.repositories; }
});

MDMagick

MDMagick

MDMagick (GitHub: fguillen / MDMagick, License: CC BY 3.0) also by Fernando Guillen is a Markdown interface for jQuery. It uses Showdown, which is a Markdown parser for JavaScript, and a-tools for handling text selections.

Document-Bootstrap and DownloadBuilder.js

Document-Bootstrap (GitHub: gfranko / Document-Bootstrap, License: MIT) by Greg Franko is a boilerplate for creating responsive Bootstrap projects. It also includes DownloadBuilder.js (GitHub: gfranko / DownloadBuilder.js, License: MIT), a project by the same author that uses the HTML5 File API to create optimised client-side scripts.

DownloadBuilder.js supports concatenating local files and files hosted on GitHub. It can also cache Ajax/JSONP requests by using sessionStorage.


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