paulirish/lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.
A very handy web component from Paul—this works exactly like a regular YouTube embed, but is much more performant.
A very handy web component from Paul—this works exactly like a regular YouTube embed, but is much more performant.
I quite like this date-picking interface. It would be nice if browsers picked it up for input type="date"
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This ever-growing curated collection of interface patterns on CodePen is a reliable source of inspiration.
Hells, yeah! Want to make an accordion widget? Use the details
element as your starting point and progressively enhance from there.
PPK has posted some excellent thinking on calendar widgets to Ev’s blog.
Una has put together a nice collection of patterns that use CSS for interactions. JavaScript would certainly be more suitable for many of these, but they still provide some great ideas for robust fallbacks.
A little piece of JavaScript to strip out the styling from Twitter widgets.
Oh, no! How horrid! Now Twitter won’t control the “user experience” of that widget!
Instead, the person who actually posted the tweets in the first place gets to decide how they should be displayed. Crazy idea, isn’t it?
Standalone embeddable widgets from Google that you can drop into any web page. The maps widget finally frees the maps API from the tyranny of coupling a domain with an API key.
John Montgomery has created an embeddable Huffduffer widget that you can add to your own site with one line of JavaScript. Hurrah! ...I really need to get 'round to documenting the (somewhat primitive) Huffduffer API.
This sounds like Yahoo's answer to Facebook Platform for single web pages or (spit!) widgets. We'll see if the reality matches the hype. "The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to build and launch open-social applications to the largest daily …
Interface elements as fridge magnets. Make prototyping fun!
Last.fm have gathered together the best apps built on their API and put them all in one handy browsable spot.
A conference all about, well, widgety goodness. In Brighton of course—home to all the best conferency goodness.
From the people who brought you jQuery comes a set of widgets built using jQuery complete with documentation and tutorials.
Use jQuery? Use a mac? Here's a handy dashboard reference.
A dashboard widget for Twitter courtesy of Ben Ward.
A very handy little preference pane that allows you to toggle Dashboard on Tiger on and off.