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jQuery Plugin – hoverFade

June 4, 2010

** This plugin has been updated, see the new page instead **
I just wrote a new jQuery plugin that adds a fading-in effect when you hover over certain elements. I’m using it to add the fading rollover states on the top nav and on the social boxes in the footer.
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hoverFade The original plugin, unminified, with [...]

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Adobe-style checkboxes

May 28, 2010

I really like the how layers can be selected in Photoshop and Fireworks by holding the mouse button down and dragging the cursor over the check boxes. I always miss this feature on web forms with more than a few check boxes on them, so I thought it would be a great idea if it [...]

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Better Password Fields with jQuery

February 8, 2010

The ‘whether or not to show plain text in password fields for usability’ situation has never really been resolved to my satisfaction; plain-text fields are clearly much more usable and less confusing than obscured passwords, but what if the person using the plain-text field is sat in a public place? Showing their password for just [...]

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