jQuery is a JavaScript library that has struck my fancy repeatedly over the past few years and which I find vastly more productive than the alternatives.
Resources:
- Cheat Sheet for version 1.2. Very, very good.
- jQuery Crash Course – a good primer.
- Learning jQuery
- jQuery Flash Plugin – get rid of FlashObject and UFO.
UI Elements:
- labelify, a plugin to add labels to your textboxes
- FancyBox, a lightbox-like plugin with a Mac-friendly look and on-demand image retrieval
- Interface
- JCarousel
- Coda-Slider, a carousel-like sliding panel library
- jqGalScroll, a simple and effective photo gallery scroller
- Galleria, a very nice image gallery component that uses fades to good effect