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Handpicked jQuery plugin repository - supercharge your website

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Why not link directly to the original demos/tutorials? Why is the repo actively designed to block me from finding the original authors?

This is quite bizarre. Not even the zip files have attributions... wtf is this?

eg: gloss under effects + UI has absolutely no context and the original can be found here: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gloss

by someone called Alaa Badran.

Scraped content, stolen link juice and no attribution in the repo zip, instead there's a text file with www.DAVIDHIGGINS.me/repo/ link????

classy

Agree big time. Not a single link to the original authors is a travesty, shame, and a mockery...it's a traveshamockery.

If you're using that "tweet to download" thing or anything remotely similar, please be aware that I will make a point not to use your website/product/whatever.

My social circle is not a free place for you to put ads, if you want me to put a good word for you there you will need to earn it.

Also, none of those scroller plugins seems to handle my mouse wheel correctly in both direction (up and down).

> if you want me to put a good word for you there you will need to earn it

isn't the download the way to earn it?

What if it said "Tweet or pay $X to download"?

Useful content, but highly questionable choice for the menu font.

No need to beat around the bush, it's terrible.

What I'd rather see is a well thought out list of the absolute best jQuery plugin for each type of plugin; the best validation plugin, the best accordion plugin, etc.

For a just-released handpicked plugin repository, you would think that all the plugins would work. Not so... (FF 7, OSX Lion). There are even a lot of plugins that reduplicate the (generally much better) functionality in jQueryUI.

Not only that, but the content is shamelessly scraped without even the decency of including an attribution to the original authors.

This post should be getting flagged and thrown out!

I bailed the first time the site told me to upgrade to Firefox. I'm using Chrome 15, but that shouldn't matter. A modern site purporting to offer jQuery plugins should support all modern browsers.

I think that was a demo for activebar.

I like simple http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/simplemodal/ for modal forms as well.

The demos were a lot of fun to play with. Especially the living.forms one under FORMS + CONTROLS. It's just a shame I can't seem to link to the individual pages!

Menu on left is unusable mess (Firefox, win) but awesome work bringing it all together.

The menu's font needs changing too (Safari, MBA). Why ever use a "fancy" font? Make it easy to read.

That menu doesn't play well with text zoom, I think.

In effects + ui > zoomer plugin, I can't scroll down the page at all, bug?

Very nice. Hunting for the perfect plugin is very time consuming. Thanks for doing the leg work.

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