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.

For JavaScript and AJAX applications, Taffy DB is a beautiful tool.

Taffy DB is an open source JavaScript library that acts as a data layer inside the applications. Just think of it as a SQL database in your web browser.

Let’s say you have a collection of products and you want to find every product that costs less than $10 and is not a book. Simple, just write some JavaScript:
products.find({price:{lessthan:10},
type:{not:"Book"}});

Major features:

• Under 10K!
• Simple, JavaScript Centric Syntax
• Fast
• Easy to include in any web application
• Compatible with major Ajax libraries: YUI, JQuery, Dojo, Prototype, EXT, etc
• CRUD Interface (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• Sorting
• Looping
• Advanced Queries

Check out the Getting Started Guide for Taffy DB‘s capabilities.

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.

gotAPI provides an interface which makes it easy to reach the methods and functions of many JavaScript frameworks, scripting & programming languages, databases & even CMS softwares.

gotAPI gets the information from the original sources or trusted websites which makes the data up-to-date. Once you get used to the web interface, reaching data becomes faster because you browse all data for many APIs the same way.

Some of the supported APIs:

• Google GWT
• Prototype.js
• jQuery
• Yahoo! UI
• MochiKit
• Flickr

jQuery Cycle plugin is a lightweight plugin which lets users to create animated slideshows.

jQuery already has slide plugins and this plugin covers most of the effects and some effects are based on other jQuery plugins.

The Cycle Plugin is split into two parts: the core engine and the transition definitions. The core engine provides the ‘fade’ transition effect and all the logic needed for defining and using custom transitions. The Transition pack includes all of the pre-defined transition effects for the Cycle Plugin.

Slideshow effects includes:

• pause-on-hover
• auto-stop,
• auto-fit
• before/after callbacks
• click triggers
• and many transition effects

The famous Lightbox type information windows are very usable in many cases like showing alerts, giving tips to users, showing media content inside them & many more.

jqModal is also a lightweight window plugin written for jQuery which improves & makes easier the use of windows.

Features:

• Inline or remote (ajax/iframe) Window Content.
• Modal-in-modal and Multiple Independent Modal support
• Tailor behavior "on-the-fly" with easy to understand parameters and callbacks
• DOM element events are preserved, remote (ajax) javascript is evaluated
• Translator/i18n friendly; no hardcoded English strings
• Designer Friendly; abstracted HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Support for Drag’n'Drop + Resizing
• Extendable through callbacks to make anything (gallery slideshows, video-conferencing, etc.) possible

curvyCorners is a javascript based solution for getting rounded corners without images for any html div element.

There are other javascript solutions which offers similar features. Some of these solutions have problems with backgrounds, sharpness of the corners. curvyCorners is between the good ones.

There is also a jQuery plugin created for curvyCorners.

Features

- Free
- Easy to use JavaScript object
- Requires no images or image editing
- Full Anti-Aliasing support
- Anti-Aliasing over graphical backgrounds
- Background-image support (round corners of images)
- Fluid height/width support
- Solid border support, any colour/width with Anti-Aliasing
- User defined per corner radiuses