Control Suite is a set of 6 high quality widgets and controls built with the Prototype JavaScript framework.

Each script is well tested, highly extensible and unobstrusive.

Suite has these widgets and controls:

• Tab
• Modal
• TextArea
• Select Multiple
• Rating
• Progress Bar

Different approach to star rating:

Suite is very well documented. You can easily reach the details of the APIs and this makes the product much more usable.

Growl is a lightweight JavaScript (mootools powered) that you can use for creating Lightbox-like but disappearing notifications.

Growl has 2 effects:

• Smoke (slowly fades out)
• Bezel (fades out and slides down)

Growl is very handy for events like "product added to basket, password sent.. and similar notifications.

Sitemaps, which make the website navigation easier, can be created using CSS with the "tree hierarchy".

CSS Sitemap uses list tags for the hierarch and formats the user interface nicely.

For the last touch, CSS Sitemap lets collapsing the sitemap using a jQuery function.

Similar to Ext Grid, but built on jQuery, Flexigrid is a feature rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using AJAX to load the content.

Features of this jQuery data grid plugin:

• Resizable columns
• Resizable height
• Sortable column headers
• Cool theme
• Can convert an ordinary table
• Ability to connect to an ajax data source (XML only)
• Paging
• Show/hide columns
• Accessible API
• More..

Similar to Lightbox, FancyBox, a jQuery powered image zooming script, zooms the images with very nice loading and zoom-in / zoom-out effects.

Features:

• Automatically scales large images to fit in window
• Adds a nice drop shadow under the full-size image
• Image sets to group related images and navigate through them

Basic usage:

$(function() {

    $("div#test_zone a").fancybox();

});

FancyBox works with the major web browsers and can be configured for different closing effects.

Smart Lists, a light-weight (8KB) Prototype-script.aculo.us framework extension, converts HTML lists into categorized, paginated lists. And, It does not require a database or server-side script.

It can be applied to existing lists with very little effort, providing a significant bump in usability.

Smart List is easily configurable with different hide/show effects for items and changing pages, speed of the effects and number of the items for paging.

Besides supporting all the major modern browsers, it degrades gracefully for unsupported browsers.

ProtoFlow is an open source content viewing application built with Prototype & script.aculo.us which functions similar to the famous iTunes Cover Flow.

You can browse through the content (it supports all the HTML elements) with mouse clicks or a JavaScript slider.

It is mentioned that the application may have more features in the future like auto-play and image reflection.

Easy News is a jQuery plugin which allows creating "news slides" on the fly.

Supporting any HTML content, and even Flash, it can display the content with fade-in / out, left to right ,slide-up / down effects.

Using this jQuery news slide plugin you can adjust the speed of the effects and rotation, or enable / disable mouse-over pause features.

Easy News, has also a "plus" version which displays content with another sliding effect and can be integrated into Joomla with a ready to use module.

Online image cropping is a widely used feature in web applications.

Prototype JavaScript Image Cropper UI is an unobtrusive script based on Prototype and script.aculo.us.

It allows you to select any area in an image and gives the x, y, x1, y1, width and height values which are enough for a succesful image cropping.

This Prototype image crop UI also has ratio locking, selected area preview and minimum height – width options.

Sphinx is a standalone search engine application that can be integrated with your data sources to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions.

To clear how powerful it is, Sphinx is already used in BlogCatalog, Joomla & phpBB community forums and more.

Sphinx currently supports:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• XML Pipe mechanism that allows indexing of XML data

Some features of Sphinx:

• high indexing speed (up to 10 MB/sec on modern CPUs)
• high search speed (avg query is under 0.1 sec on 2-4 GB text collections)
• high scalability (up to 100 GB of text, upto 100 M documents on a single CPU)
• supports distributed searching (since v.0.9.6)
• supports phrase proximity ranking, providing good relevance
• supports any number of document fields (weights can be changed on the fly)
• supports different search modes ("match all", "match phrase" and "match any" as of v.0.9.5)