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Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating away from the linking page.

What about the case where most products don’t have offerings, or the offerings don’t have merchants, vel cetera? If this were a frequent case, and this were inner-loop code, I might introduce a global empty object in order to reduce the object instantiation overhead (which happens right away) and the GC load (which shows up over time). E.g. define var $N={}, and use: var product = ..., merchantName = (((product||$N).offering||$N).merchant||$N).name; if (merchantName) displayMerchantName(merchantName);

This article presents a JavaScript component which renders a tree on the screen using VML (Vector Markup Language) in Internet Explorer 6+ or the <canvas> element in Firefox 1.5+.

The Persevere project is an open source set of tools for persistence and distributed computing using intuitive standards-based JSON interfaces of HTTP REST, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, and HTTP Channels. The core of the Persevere project is the Persevere Server. The Persevere server includes a Persevere JavaScript client, but the standards-based interface is intended to be used with any framework or client.

I've made a small script that let you use JavaScript session variables without using cookies. It will let you store 2 MB of data, with much less hassle than a cookie based solution.

markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.