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Create a Twitter AJAX Button with MooTools, jQuery, or Dojo

There’s nothing like a subtle, slick website widget that effectively uses CSS and JavaScript to enhance the user experience.  Of course widgets like that take many hours to perfect, but it doesn’t take long for that effort to be rewarded with above-average user retention and buzz.  One of the widgets I love is Twitter’s “Follow” button.  Let me sho …

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FireQuery

This is a very cool extension for Firebug (add-on for an add-on?) that expands Firebug’s capabilities with jQuery. For instance, a built in jQueryify button, showing attached event handlers in the Content / DOM tree view, and highlighting all elements in a jQuery collection. I don’t think it’s new but I hadn’t seen it until I finally watched Remy S …

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Tiled Based Vector & Raster Maps using SVG and Javascript

Polymaps is a display and interaction library for tile-based vector and raster maps using SVG and Javascript. Their intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects.Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datas …

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PaintbrushJS – Browser Based Image Processing Library

PaintbrushJS is a lightweight, browser-based image processing library that can apply various visual filters to images within a web page.You use it by applying a class to an element on the page and setting a few parameters with some extra HTML attributes. If the element is an img or it has a background-image set in your CSS, PaintbrushJS will create …

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Mastering the 960 Grid System

We’re already familiar with the 12- and 16-column variants of 960.gs, but did you know that a 24-column alternative exists too? In this article, you’ll master the 960 grid system by dissecting the 24-column version demo. If you’ve only used 960gs before for Photoshop mockups, consider this your lucky day. By the end of this article, you’ll be able …

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