headtracker
headtrackr is a javascript library for real-time face tracking and head tracking, tracking the position of a users head in relation to the computer screen, via a web camera and the webRTC/getUserMedia standard.
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holder
Holder uses the canvas element and the data URI scheme to render image placeholders entirely in browser.
Include holder.js, then add placeholders like so:
<img data-src="holder.js/200x200/text:hello world">
Via The Changelog.
See also
Remote Preview
Remote preview is a tiny JavaScript based tool which I built for our test lab. It allows you to preview any URL on large number of mobile devices simultaneously. Just enter a URL, hit enter, and new URL gets automatically loaded on each device. Remote preview works on platforms like Android, Blackberry, iOS, Maemo, Meego, Symbian, Windows Phone and WebOS.
Hammer is a web development tool that lets front-end developers write HTML, CSS & JS web builds more efficiently and quickly, and makes them easier to maintain, especially across larger builds that change frequently during development.
When you create or add a project to Hammer, it will create a ‘Build’ folder inside your project folder. You edit your HTML, CSS & JS files in your text editor of choice and every time a file is updated, added or removed, Hammer will automatically update the Build folder to reflect the changes.
Via Andy Clarke.
Accessible Media Player
The Nomensa accessible media player is a flexible multimedia solution for websites and intranets. The core player consists of JavaScript wrapper responsible for generating an accessible HTML toolbar for interacting with a media player of your choice. We currently provide support for YouTube (default), Vimeo and JWPlayer although it should be possible to integrate the player with almost any media player on the web (provided a JavaScript api for the player in question is available).
t.js
A tiny javascript templating framework in ~400 bytes gzipped
Underscore-CLI
Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript. Underscore-CLI can be a simple pretty printer… Or it can form the backbone of a rich, full-powered Javascript command-line, inspired by “perl -pe”, and doing for structured data what sed, awk, and grep do for text.
Keyboard-fu
This is an extension that lets you assign hotkeys to arbitrary actions, which are just javascript code snippets (Coffeescript coming soon). The extension provides an API (small but evolving) which includes functions for tab management, opening bookmarks, launching bookmarklets, page scrolling etc., and also jQuery is available along with the whole DOM of the page.
Jam
Jam is a package manager for JavaScript.
Fixie.js
Fixie.js is an open source tool that automatically adds filler content to HTML documents. Adding lorem ipsum text to HTML documents involves copy-pasting, manual editing, and increasingly unwieldy code. By interpreting your semantic HTML5 tags, Fixie will automagically add the right type of content in the right places. Headings, paragraphs, links, images, sections…
retina.js
retina.js is an open source script that makes it easy to serve high-resolution images to devices with retina displays. When your users load a page, retina.js checks each image on the page to see if there is a high-resolution version of that image on your server. If a high-resolution variant exists, the script will swap in that image in-place.
locache
JavaScript caching framework for client side caching in the browser using localStorage. With a memcache inspired API usage is very easy and familiar. locache has no dependencies and is very small. locache gracefully degrades when the browser doesn’t support localStorage.
Ender
Ender is a full featured package manager for your browser. It allows you to search, install, manage, and compile front-end javascript packages and their dependencies for the web. We like to think of it as NPM’s little sister.
Squeezeit
A command line tool for minifying Javascript and CSS, written in Python.
Via HN.
