Found an extensive list of jquery-plugins through Web 2.0 Technologies: jQuery plugin goodness.

What really pleased me was that I found a higlight/fade addon for jquery (like Fade Anything Technique, Yellow Fade Technique and more).

I have told my self that I must write a generic solution for fading as a plugin to jquery, but I never seem to find the time. The highlightFade script for jquery is not yet fully documented but it should not be any problem implementing it by reading the inline-documentation in the source-code.

I log and rewrite my outgoing links with jquery. I do this for a couple of reason:

1. I want to have valid XHTML, and not add target to my links in the markup.
2. I want Google to index my outbound links correctly and not have mysterious links like /link/out.php?url=http://www.yahoo.com.
3. I want the sites that i link to, to see the correct referrer in their logs.
4. I still want to log what links are popular exits from my page

How do I solve this?

1. Add a class to each external link I want to log.
   
Yahoo!

2. Attach a log and a rewrite behaviour to links with the class added above.

   
   $(document).ready(function(){
     $("a.external-link").each(function(){
        //rewrite: open in new window
        this.target = "_blank";
        //log the click
        this.onclick = function(){
          //lets make some valid use of xmlhttp-capabilities
          $.get("/out.php?url=" + escape(this.href), function(s){});
        }
     });
   }
   );
   
   

3. Create the server-side controller for handling logging.

   
   out.php
   
   
   

That should more or less do it.

1. We still have valid strict xhtml
2. The outbound links are unaltered in a Search Engine Optimization point of view
3. Referring links are correct for those sites that we do link to
4. We are able to log outbound links

A nice example of how to use the DOM-manipulation features and built-in effects of jquery can be found at jQuery Visual Documentation

A nice collection of plugins for jquery for rich internet applications can be found at http://www.eyecon.ro/interface/. The fx library implements a lot of the different effect we have come to like from http://script.aculo.us/, but without having to load the too heavy prototype framework.

Christian at Polyester has released an amazingly easy-to-use, extensible and fast plugin for sorting tables using the jquery javascript library. I have been asked to create a couple of good examples. I will add them later, until that I have implemented the table sorter on Rocksoff.se.