My components suite mb.components benefits greatly from the Q&A service which we bought from StackExchange services. We decided to offer to all jQuery component developers free hosting on the jquery.pupunzi.com service.

What you get: if you link your components site to jquery.pupunzi.com,

1. you get the best online Q&A service you can get: see stackoverflow.com.
2. we will add a home page banner pointing to your components site, as in the picture on the left.

You should link from your site filtering by the “root” tag concerning your component, e.g.

http://jquery.pupunzi.com/questions/tagged/jquery.mb.scrollable

Why we do this: it is a way to get more visibility to our (and your) component by “sharing” users. It is also a way to share answers and experts on jQuery components.

How to proceed: write me an e-mail at info at open-lab dot com, and I’ll get back to you.

We have published a new charting tool for Patapage.

based on jqPlot for jquery, it let you easily show any data as chart on your page with many configuration and a friendly tool to insert your value; it has a history manager to let you restore previous versions and it’s on the Patapage philosophy! check this article written by Roberto Bicchierai (the author of this tool): http://roberto.open-lab.com/2009/12/21/javascript-charting-tools-an-overview/

Go and try it!

Another great functionality for Patapage: an on line RSS reader that slide over your web page!
Go and try it!

I’ve updated the jquery.mb.scrollable to version 1.5.5 fixing some bugs and adding two callbacks functions: nextCallback and prevCallback.

get the latest version!

jquery.mb.flipText is a simple plug-in to turn your text vertically in both direction: top-bottom or bottom-top.Wasn’t that something you would have done on your HTML pages?

Take a look

See it also presented in Patapage: Flip your HTML text around.

I’m glad to announce the public beta release of Patapage, a new way of thinking the web!

Try it, enjoy it!

http://patapage.com

Ask questions and get good answers on jQuery directly from your Firefox search bar!

Thanks to Federico Soldani now you can search directly from Firefox toolbar into jQueryExchange Q&A!

Get the latest jQueryExchange addon for Firefox!

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/51325

Patapage will be out in the next days!

For all  web designers, a new suite of tools that add features available to web visitors in an unobstrusive way; Patapage gives you the power to enrich either static or dynamic web pages with additional contents and tools, without using any complex serverside solution!

For example…

what could your users do once patapage is used into your pages:

• They can read (and write if allowed) specific pataWiki (related contents);
• They can comment directly on your page;
• They can take a look to your flickr (or Picasa) gallery inside your page;
• They can contact you using an easy to set form specific for your page;
• They can rate contents or pages of your site;
• they can easly retweet your pages;
• they can read twits on specific tags directly on your page;
• they can search into your site using google search engine;

And many other things we are developing right now!

What would you have:

• A confortable backoffice where you can administer all contents inserted in your site (approve/unapprove contents, revert from history, manage spam, read form messages, get rates report,…).
• You can add as many site as you want and as many buttons as you need.
• You can use all the Patapage buttons actually available and all the once we are going to include in the future.

How does it works?

• Just create your button with its specifics, copy the few lines of generated code, paste it into your web page and it’s done, your page has now the new patapage feature!

If you want get an access to the beta… http://patapage.com

version 2.4 , The mb.containerPlus with memory!

Finally out the mb.containerPlus with cookies manager; this issue was one of the most voted for this component, it allows to remember the state, the position and the dimensions of your container once the page is reloaded. Just add a”rememberMe” metadata on the specific container and the game is done! (the container must have an ID setted)

Get the last version!

Just published the release 1.5 of jquery.mb.extruder with great new issue:

• modified the flipText behavior (stronger than before).
• added “positionFixed” param to control the position of the extruder (true id default and the extruder doesn’t scroll with the page; if set to false it scrolls).
• added a method to disable/enable a voice on the fly:
  $.fn.disableExtruderVoice and $.fn.enableExtruderVoice

Take a look!