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HALP! Does anyone know of a jQuery plugin that has notifications like they do on OSX. For example, when you raise the volume or mute you see that rounded transparent square? Is there something like that for the web?

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I think http://stanlemon.net/pages/jgrowl is very close.

  jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages 
  within the browser, similar to the way that OS X's Growl
  Framework works.

It is pretty old by now (4 years), but a benefit of that is that it supports older browsers too.

And this plug-in is also close. Build on top of jQuery UI, so small footprint, but you'd need that library.

http://www.erichynds.com/examples/jquery-notify/

  This is a growl/ubuntu-like notification system built on 
  top of jQuery UI.

It's a DIV with a border-radius and a semi-transparent black background. It's just CSS, why use a jQuery plugin? Why not just quickly build it yourself?

Because it is an alert. I need it to fade in and then disappear. I mean I guess I could build it but was wondering if there is a complete library out there to handle the alerting and all the options a modern notification library has.

I found this project that would fit the bill: http://fabien-d.github.com/alertify.js/

See "Customizable Log Messages".

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