jQuery - a cool, powerful grid!

One of the things I've always wanted the jQuery UI to have has been a grid control.
Alas, it is quite a way down the priority list.

Up until now, I've been using tablesorter, which has been very reliable and useful.
What it was missing was resizeable and moveable columns.

I have now found a jQuery grid control, slickgrid, that supports that plus much much more.

Some of its highlights are:

• Resizable/reorderable columns


• Custom cell formatting editing


• Virtual scrolling. It can manage many thousands of rows of data, while only showing the rows needed


• Very configurable and customisable

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!

jQuery plugin - splitter

Another very handy jQuery plugin I am looking at at the moment is this splitter.

It supports vertical and horizontal splitters, fixed or fluid widths and heights, nested splitters etc.
It has very nice look about it!
Visit it and check it out.

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jQuery file upload plugin

I have been using jQuery for quite a while now and I still consider it to be one of the best tools for javascript development. There are bigger js libraries around, as well as ones that offer more eye candy but i still find the simplicity, easy-of-use and power of jQuery, extremely useful.


I have seen an explosion of component becoming available for jQuery (sometimes, it is too hard trying to catch up with all the new ones that keep coming out).


One component I have always wanted, is a multi-file upload dialog that also offers visual feedback. There have been a few but they never did seem to hit the spot for me.
Now, there is a new one, called jQuery file upload plugin, by Ronnie Garcia, that seems to have got all the right answers.


Visit Ronnie's site and have a look at it.


If you enjoy what you see, leave Ronnie some feedback of appreciation.

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Handy web-design plugin for Firefox and IE

It is always a bit of a problem trying to determine if a web page will look ok on a user's screen, given that there are so many different resolutions around.


This plugin makes it easy to resize your browser window (Firefox or IE) to one of the standard resolutions and see how your page would look like.


Simply, right-click on your browser window and select Resize Window.

My Firefox plugins

I use Firefox for all my web work and I've come across a number of add-ins that I have found to be very useful.

Here is the list of each one of them, including links to the add-in's home page.

• Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5
• Aging Tabs 0.7
• Better GCal 0.3
• Better Gmail 2 0.5.3.2
• Better GReader 0.3
• Codetch 0.4.1rc1
• ColorZilla 2.0
• Copy All Urls 0.8.0
• CoScripter 1.600
• DownThemAll! 1.0.3
• dragdropupload 1.6.8
• Firebug 1.2.0b7
• Firecookie 0.6
• FireFTP 1.0
• FireShot 0.57
• Flashblock 1.5.6
• Forecastbar Enhanced 0.9.6
• Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.1.20080605W
• Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0
• IE View 1.3.7
• JSView 2.0.5
• MeasureIt 0.3.8
• MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1
• NoScript 1.7.7
• Organize Status Bar 0.6.2
• PDF Download 2.0.0.0
• Pencil 1.0.2
• PicLens 1.7.1.3900 (see http://piclens.com/demo/ and http://blog.cooliris.com)
• Screen grab! 0.95
• Selenium IDE 1.0b2
• Session Manager 0.6.1.13
• SQLite Manager 0.3.4
• Stylish 0.5.7
• Temporary Inbox 2.1.2
• TrashMail.net 1.0.12
• View Dependencies 0.3.3.0
• Web Developer 1.1.6

Enjoy!

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!