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QueryLoader2 – Preload your images with ease - Gaya Design

QueryLoader2 is an updated jQuery plugin that preloads all images (including background images) from specified page elements before the website becomes visible to users. The tool has been simplified for easier implementation and works across modern browsers and IE7+ by automatically scanning for images and displaying a customizable loading bar with options for percentage display, animation type, and callback functions. The code is maintained on GitHub, allowing users to report issues and contribute fixes.

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Table rows as clickable anchors – James Padolsey

The author explains why naive solutions for making table rows clickable (using JavaScript to redirect on click) are problematic—they lack browser features like middle-click-to-open-in-new-tab and right-click context menus that users expect from real links. Rather than attempting to simulate all this missing functionality, the author created a jQuery plugin that overlays an actual anchor element across clickable rows, preserving all native link behaviors while maintaining the appearance and user experience of a large clickable area.

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Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery | Codrops

This tutorial demonstrates how to create an interactive focus effect on text cards using CSS3 transitions and jQuery, where hovering over one card scales it up and blurs its neighboring cards. The effect uses CSS transforms, box-shadows, and text-shadow properties to create the blur illusion, with JavaScript simply toggling "active" and "blur" classes on hover to trigger the smooth transitions. The technique relies on modern browser support for CSS3 transitions and works best in Chrome and Safari.

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Redactor

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thepeg/MediaTable · GitHub

This is an archived GitHub repository from 2011 containing a jQuery plugin for creating responsive media tables, with accompanying CSS styling and a polyfill for older browsers. The author has explicitly marked it as outdated and intentionally preserved it as a historical record of their earlier coding practices, discouraging current use or cloning.

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timeago: a jQuery plugin

Timeago is a jQuery plugin that converts static timestamps into automatically updating relative times (like "4 minutes ago"), which refresh periodically to stay current without server-side recalculation. It works by attaching to HTML5 time elements or legacy abbr tags with ISO 8601 datetime values, and supports configuration options for future/past timestamps, multiple languages, and timezone handling. The plugin eliminates the problem of stale timestamps in cached pages while allowing developers to leverage standard HTML markup.

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paulirish/jquery-ajax-localstorage-cache · GitHub

Jalc is a jQuery plugin that caches AJAX responses in browser localStorage to reduce bandwidth and latency, allowing developers to set expiration times (in hours), validate cached data with custom functions, and optionally transform responses before caching. The plugin works with any object implementing the Storage interface and supports jQuery 1.5.1+ (version 1.x.x) or 3.0.0+ (version 2.x.x), with alternative versions available for binary data and the Fetch API.

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