Aflax is a library that enables developers to use JavaScript to fully utilize all of the features of Adobe’s Flash runtime including graphics, networking, video and camera support.

Flash JavaScript gateway that was released by Macromedia was only for Flash 7 or earlier and was a very low performance library as well. Aflax uses Flash 8’s new ExternalInterface which is much faster and more capable.

As a conclusion, using Aflax, you can create media players, animated charts, graphics & more with Flash without writing any ActionScript.

John Resig (the creator of jQuery) has created a pure JavaScript HTML parser that can definitely be very handy.

As more HTML code is inserted and formatted inside JavaScript tags, this parser can save serious development time with automating the process.

Some examples:

• Unclosed Tags: HTMLtoXML("<p><b>Hello") == '<p><b>Hello</b></p>'
• Empty Elements: HTMLtoXML("<img src=test.jpg>") == '<img src="test.jpg"/>'
• Attributes Without Values: HTMLtoXML("<input disabled>") == '<input disabled="disabled"/>'

HTML is a language with lots of tricks and the parser may fail in some cases but it will work in most of them and will become better by time for sure.

inputEx is a javascript framework, built on the top of YUI, for creating forms and form objects.

It uses no html (opposite of unobtrusive libraries): all the fields and forms are configured using JSON. It provides a very efficient abstraction for building interactive web applications.

inputEx features:

• json configuration for each field
• complex data structures (list/objects/tree/list of urls/objects of objects etc…)
• composition between the fields (for “meta”-fields such as InPlaceEdit,List,Tree,Pair,…)
• javascript object mapping for greater interactivity
• a common “updated” event to handle different browsers and different field interactions

Fireworks.js is a JavaScript file which helps you create configurable fireworks effects in your website.

Besides using it, it is also a nice example of JavaScript effects and script fired sounds to get inspired.

This JavaScript uses SoundManager for script triggered sounds and supports different types of fireworks effects including the "exploding-disappearing" and "random explosions".

There are lots of JavaScript color pickers which work great but there are few which are similar to the Photoshop’s color picker.

This JavaScript color picker has HSB and RGB options, uses Prototype and compatible with all major browsers.

This script can be a solution for users who are looking for an advanced color picker in their applications.

JSGallery is a very nice AJAX image gallery built with Mootools.

Look & effects of the script is configurable. It supports browsing with keyboard between images and also pages.

Features of this AJAX gallery:

• nice transitions for page change, image select, etc.
• supports easy to build no-script version
• preloads images with separate indicators (optional)
• a bunch of options to change the default styles and bevaviours
• visibility of prev/next handles is controlled by mouse distance
• use the arrow keys to go to previous/next image
• use number keys to go to a certain page (beginning with 1)
• prevents too fast change of images (ugly effect interruption)

Few posts ago, we had mentioned SoundManager (WRD post link), a JavaScript API for controlling Flash sounds.

MooSound is a very similar API for MooTools (thanks to Ruslan for suggesting the resource).

MooSound’s poweful features let you reach almost every aspect of the flash sounds like:

• start, stop, pause
• ID3 information
• Filesize
• Loaded Bytes
• Duration
• Position
• Setting the volume
• Setting the pan
• Jump to feature

API is very well documented and a demo can be found at the homepage.

Scrollovers is a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren’t expecting.

It is simply a JavaScript that helps creating rollover image-like links with text .

How to use Scrollovers?

Insert the scrollovers.js file to your web pages and create your links like this:

<a href="[YOUR PAGE HERE]" class="scrollover" type="scrollover">[YOUR TEXT HERE]</a>

And the last add the styles with the color palette of your preference like below:

<style>
   a.scrollover {color: #557AFF;}
   a.scrollover em:first-line {color: #FF5B3C;}
</style>

And that’s it. 

easyAlbum is an open source image gallery script built with JavaScript.

This image gallery does not have an AJAX interface but it simply presents the images inside list tags with a Lightbox type browser friendly pop-up and navigation support.

How to use easyAlbum?

• After inserting easyALBUM.js file in your page, create a list with the "ul" tag id equals gallery like <ul id="gallery"> and add the images inside the "li" tags.
• Modify your "body" tag for onload like <body onload = "TJK_Gallery('gallery');">.

SoundManager is a Javascript Sound API which  effectively maps most of the native sound capabilities of Flash 8 to Javascript.

It enables you to control sound in a cross-browser/platform environment, using a language you already know.

A sample SoundManager code would be:

soundManager.createSound('myNewSound','/path/to/some.mp3');
soundManager.play('myNewSound');
soundManager.setVolume(’myNewSound’,50);

You see that it is really easy. This JavaScript Flash Sound API has other powerful controls like:

• stream
• autoplay
• onid3 - for ID3 tag displaying
• whileplaying
• and more..

Using SoundManager, you can easily create sound based web applications or more interactive background sounds for non-Flash websites.