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TypeWatch is a script built on top of jQuery that lets you determine whether or not a user has stopped typing, this way you can make sure you do not run unecessesary requests with your AJAX-driven apps. I am thinking of using such a interaction pattern for site specific commands in a similar way to QuickSilver for Mac or the ubiquitous firefox plugin.

The Masked Input Plugin for jQuery enables support for developers and designers solving a big problem when it comes to form validation. By specifying the pattern or mask you expect the input to be in, you can make sure that the data you are sending to the server probably will be properly formatted and provide for a better user experience.

jGrowl is a Growl clone built as a jQuery plugin. Growl is a event messaging library for Mac OS X. The purpose of jGrowl is to be able to raise unobtrusive messages based on user or system events. If you have used Growl on Mac OS X, you know this is a great design pattern that adds greatly to the user experience.

Datejs is a JavaScript Date Library. If you are looking for a good extension for the core JavaScript Date object with extra features such as an extremely good string parser for dates, nice syntax for finding dates in the future and back, i18n-support and l10n-support out of the box then Datejs is the library for you. This is a must have for people seeking solutions for manipulating time and date clientside using JavaScript.

SyntaxHighlighter is an excellent script for people who publish code online. The script supports code highlightning for a number of different popular languages, such as C++, C#, CSS, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB, XML, HTML. SyntaxHighlighter has become some sort of standard for bloggers posting source code for other to view. The script are also available as a WordPress plugin.

TableSorter for jQuery by Christian Bach is a easy to add script for sorting tables. It works on large sets of data, and is customizable both via filters, options and themes. It is a shame this plugin is not part of the jQuery UI, I bet they are working on some kind of grid functionality to add to the jQuery UI. TableSorter was a part of jQuery UI in the beginning, but got taken away before version 1.5. The script is well written, works fine and is widely used.

Lightbox 2 is the second version of the mother of all lightbox clones. Lightbox runs on top of Prototype JS and Scriptaculous. New stuff in version 2 is Image Sets, Visual Effects (Transition). The script is unobtrusive and easier to implement than for example Shadowbox, but you are forced to use the Prototype library. A lot of Ruby-apps run prototype and Lightbox out of the box.

Shadowbox is a media viewer script, on ApplyScript we will categorize these scripts as lightbox clones, as lightbox are the script that have been most used and spread. Shadowbox offers wide support for different media types and is javascript-library-agnostic, it works with all the big JavaScript libraries. Shadowbox can be somewhat difficult to set up and run, but it is worth the wait/struggle when it runs smoothly.

ApplyScript will feature JavaScript and AJAX articles as well as a directory for libraries and frameworks that solves the problems you are after solving. We appreciate if you hand us your scripts so we can start promoting your different scripts on ApplyScript. 

Hopefully we will grow slow and comfortably to good resource for finding scripts for different purposes.