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Three times a week (sometimes more) we add a new script or tutorial to our archives and post them on this page, so you can quickly find out what's new at the JavaScript Source.

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Title: Scrolling & Expanding List
Contributor: Steve Chipman
Contributor URL: http://slayeroffice.com/
Date Uploaded: August 29, 2008
Description: This list scrolls within a DIV, and also fully expands. East to implement. Can be used in many different ways.

Title: MooTools Basic Tips for Web Designer: Part 1
Contributor: Antonio Lupetti
Contributor URL: http://woork.blogspot.com/
Date Uploaded: August 27, 2008
Description:This tutorial series illustrates some simple tips to begin working with MooTools. This first installment shows how to manipulate element properties, in particular how to get DOM element by ID, how to use getStyle(), setStyle(), and toInt() and some examples to introduce writing unobtrusive JavaScript code.

Title: JSLint
Contributor: Douglas Crockford
Contributor URL: http://www.crockford.com/
Date Uploaded: August 25, 2008
Description: This script takes a JavaScript source, scans it, and returns a message describing any problems and their approximate location within the source. It looks at some style conventions as well as structural problems. It does not prove that your script is correct, it just provides another set of eyes to help spot problems.

Title: Dojo
Contributor: Alex Russell and Dylan Schiemann
Contributor URL: http://dojotoolkit.org/
Date Uploaded: August 22, 2008
Description: An open source, portable JavaScript toolkit that lets you build interactive modules quickly, animate transitions, and construct Ajax requests with ease.

Title: Form Focus
Contributor: Lee Underwood
Contributor URL: http://javascript.internet.com/
Date Uploaded: August 20, 2008
Description: This snippet places the cursor in a selected form field upon page load. It uses the ID attribute, making it easy to target any field, regardless of form changes. Easy to add to any form.

Title: Yahoo! UI Library: Get Utility
Contributor: Yahoo!
Contributor URL: http://developer.yahoo.com/
Date Uploaded: August 18, 2008
Description: The Get Utility provides a mechanism for attaching script and CSS resources — including cross-domain resources — to the DOM after the page has loaded.

Title: qTip
Contributor: Craig Erskine
Contributor URL: http://qrayg.com/
Date Uploaded: August 15, 2008
Description: This script creates tooltips for anything on your page. You select what tags it can be attached to and then just add them to the page.

Title: Image Navigator
Contributor: Steve Chipman
Contributor URL: http://slayeroffice
Date Uploaded: August 13, 2008
Description: This script works by sliding the background image of one DIV element, using the background-position to correspond with the coordinates of another DIV. Great for showing details in a small space.

Title: Auto Expire
Contributor: Don Demrow
Contributor URL: http://www.euro-innova.com
Date Uploaded: August 11, 2008
Description: Set "go live" and "expire" dates for content, such as "Latest News" or various promotional content. Great for when you don't have time to remember to go back and take old content down, or when you want to create content and have it go live at a later date.

Title: Filler Text
Contributor: ciceraccio
Date Uploaded: August 8, 2008
Description: Use this snippet to display text on a Web page when testing and doing design layout work. The amount and type of text can easily be changed, according to your preferences and needs.

Title: Panorama
Contributor: Andreas Berger
Contributor URL: http://www.bretteleben.de/
Date Uploaded: August 6, 2008
Description: This script provides a panorama view of an image, without using Flash or Java. Scrolls to the left and to the right. Easy to implement.

Title: Non-blocking JavaScript Downloads
Contributor: Stoyan Stefanov
Date Uploaded: August 4, 2008
Description: External JavaScript files block downloads and hurt your page performance, but there is an easy way to work around this problem: use dynamic scripts tags and load scripts in parallel, improving the page loading speed and the user experience.

Title: Suggest Messages
Contributor: Antonio Lupetti
Contributor URL: http://woork.blogspot.com/
Date Uploaded: August 1, 2008
Description: This script will display information when a field is selected with the cursor. An excellent method for providing additional or important instructions to your visitors. Easy to implement.

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