On the hunt for the best open source resources and more

The use of the jQuery library is growing and growing(just released jQuery 1.4), more and more people are using this useful javascript library. This means that more and more useful jQuery tips, tricks and solutions are coming available. That’s why i created a small list of 26 cool and useful jQuery tips, tricks and solutions.

jQuery has a lot of very useful plugins that can help you with almost anything, but there are a couple of plugins that aren’t that smart to use, why? Well sometimes 1 or 2 lines of jQuery code can do the same thing(or even better), so why use a big script if you can do the same trick with a small piece of code.

I am always looking for nice and useful jQuery plugins. This time i found a nice one, airport is not a plugin that will be used by thousands of people like the jQuery cycle plugin. But this does not mean it’s not useful, you can probably use it voor a news ticker or some kind of advertisment. Take a look at the demo here.

JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser).

Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine multiple CSS or Javascript files, compress their contents (i.e. removal of unnecessary whitespace/comments), and serve the results with HTTP encoding (gzip/deflate) and headers that allow optimal client-side caching.

This versatile 1kb horizontal accordion script can be used for menus, images, presentation content and more.

$fx() is the really small and pretty flexible library to animate HTML elements. It lets you to alter any CSS property allong time line by passing just simple configuration.

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

Like snow and/or fireworks? Now you can add these effects on your site (see this site for the snow effect). How? Go and see……………….

SmartMarkUP is a lightweight and powerful JavaScript library that allows you to turn any textarea into a fancy markup editor. HTML, CSS, XML, Wiki syntax, BBCode or any other desired markup language can be implemented and/or adjusted to your preferences and business needs.

haXe (pronounced as hex) is an open source programming language.