jquery.xtip - a jQuery plugin for displaying CSS-only balloon tips. I was unsatisfied with the existing
balloon implementations I could find. They either lacked what I needed - flexibility and customization and the
ability to be controlled programatically, or they were buggy. So I developed my version. It is highly customizable,
can be operated manually, can display HTML and DOM elements, can display many tips at once, etc.
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jquery.offtmp - a jQuery plugin for temporarily disabling event listeners. Its purpose is to quickly and easily
disable event listeners on elements while performing AJAX requests. If you have a button that sends
some AJAX request to the server, you probably don't want this button to be clickable before the request is complete.
And since jQuery doesn't provide a solution to turn events off just temporarily and then turn then back on without having
to know about the specific handlers, I made this plugin.
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Proper type determination in JavaScript - many people these days (2011-11-25), including reputable libraries like jQuery,
use the technique of converting their variables to strings to determine their type. I'm presenting the benefits of using the built
in JavaScript operator "instanceof" rather than calling ".toString()".
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