Update (May 10): Thank you all for your support. Currently I am improving the dateslider, check the newer (warning, not fully tested and stable) version here . I've fixed the problem of startdate > enddate and working on some other functionalities. Thanks again, you guys keep me going (:

Update (May 17): I am planning to move this project to Google Code. I received some nice improvements, so it would be good to form a team and develop this project further to fix all the bugs that are still out there. Contact me at willem [:at:] ajaxorized

You came for the demo right? It's here.

Due to the development of Qash.nl, a Dutch personal finance website full of cool javascript features, it's somewhat quiet around here. But to keep you satisfied, we present the sliding date-picker. This element enables you to pick dates with a simple slider bar. By dragging the bar over the time-line, the dates change instantly. Besides this, when the user decides to manually change the dates, the bar is automatically adjusted to the corresponding dates. As you are used to from us, the script is based on Prototype/Scriptaculous, but now combined with the very sexy DateJs library.

Implemeting is easy. First, include de javascript libraries:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder,dragdrop" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/date-en-US.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/dateslider.js" ></script>

Then, include the stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/dateslider.css" type = "text/css" />

Then copypaste this to your HTML:

<div id = "slider-container">
	<div id = "sliderbar"></div>
</div><br />
<form>
<label for = "datestart">Start:</label>  <input type = "text" id = "datestart">
<label for = "dateend">End:</label>  <input typde = "text" id = "dateend">
</form>

Finally, create the dateslider object. The parameters are [dragbar_id],[date_bar_start],[date_bar_end],[year_start],[year_end]

p_oDateSlider = new DateSlider('sliderbar', '2007-10-01', '2008-10-01', 2001, 2009);
p_oDateSlider.attachFields($('datestart'), $('dateend'));

Thats it! I've tested it in Firefox 2.x, and IE6/7, please notify me when your browser isn't supported. You can download the full package, including prototype 1.6 and scriptaculous 1.8, here, it's under the GPL license.

Enjoy!

After the image transisition manager we released last week, this week an image reflection script, using unobtrusive javascript. By adding a small piece of javascript to your code you can create this stunning effect. It offers a solution that is:

• Not involved with Flash, or
• with CSS, and
• cross browser (Tested in Firefox, Opera and IE)
• Preloading the images before reflection

Here is a demo on black and on white.
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Ajaxorized proudly presents... the Image Transition Manager. The Image Transition Manager is a javascript library based on scriptaculous and prototype. It supports several image transitions, such as fading, appearing, sliding, growing and shrinking and more to come.

While working on a project for a customer, I needed to create a kind of slideshow-like effect for presenting several photos of products. When I started out making this 'effect', I found out that I could use this for much more other projects than just this single one. That is what triggered me to create a nice class out of it, so I could easily implement it into my other projects. After showing my first version to Willem, he did some of his magic and extended my class with some other nifty image transitions and functionalities. That is how our Image Transition Manager was born.

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When adding this tiny javascript to the onkeyup event of your inputbox, the border will turn green when the email address. It uses scriptaculous' morph function to perform this transformation. See a demo
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I made some improvements on the password strength meters available on the web. Using prototype/scriptaculous, I stole some code from ZeBadger (thanks!) and created a new meter which dynamically changes while typing your password.

Click here to see the demo

If you want to use this script, feel free to download the source and use it on your website.

Enjoy.