jQuery
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Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery
The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery onto the front-end development scene has opened up the power of JavaScript to a far wider audience than ever before. It was born of the need — expressed by a crescendo of screaming by front-end developers who were fast running out of hair to pull out — to improve JavaScript’s somewhat primitive API, to make up for the lack of unified implementation across browsers and to make it more compact in its syntax.
Real Person
This plugin is designed to help overcome automated form submission by requiring a "real person" to identify text made up of dots. The entered value is compared on the server with the generated value to determine whether processing should continue. The real person functionality can easily be added to an input field with appropriate default settings.
Path animation
jQuery path animation (Flash Like) by Apr 27
Pretty Date
One method that I’ve been wanting for quite a while now was a simple way to format old JavaScript dates in a “pretty” way. For example “2008-01-28T20:24:17Z” becomes “2 hours ago”. Here’s some more examples: