jQuery version of a JavaScript library you know.

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jQuery version of a JavaScript library you know.

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You may have used a JavaScript library that is no longer suppoert. An example is Erik Bosrup's Overlib library: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websites with small popup information boxes (like tooltips) to help visitors around your website. It can be used to provide the user with information about what will happen when they click on a link as well as navigational help (see the examples below). Not to mention that it looks cool, is stable, and has an active developer community to boot!
That is (has been) a popular library and is still used by some big sites like http://www.meetic.com/. It has also been combined with other scripts like http://www.calendarscript.com/

See for example: http://www.calendarscript.com/support/f ... 60#msg6360

Now you wonder if there is a jQuery plugin that does the same. A natural query is:

overlib jquery

and you find many hits like:

http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/plugin-tags/overlib and this http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-ov ... ith-jquery four year old thread. So another possibility is to query:

jquery tooltip

and again you find a lot of hits like

http://flowplayer.org/tools/tooltip/index.html

http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jq ... n-tooltip/

The last site has a lot of other plugins http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/ like http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jq ... ocomplete/ that is deprecated:

jQuery plugin: Autocomplete
Note (2010-06-23): This plugin is deprecated and not developed anymore. Its successor is part of jQuery UI, and this migration guide explains how to get from this plugin to the new one. This page will remain as it is for reference, but won’t be updated anymore.

If you’re still using the plugin and can’t upgrade to jQuery UI autocomplete: Someone else is maintaining a GitHub repository with the plugin, including some fixes.
The latest version is located at https://github.com/agarzola/jQueryAutocompletePlugin

Conclusion:
  1. Old JavaScript libraries may be deprecated.
  2. There may be a similar or better jQuery (UI) plugin.
  3. These plugins may be maintained on a third party site like GitHub or Google code (http://code.google.com/p/jquery-autocomplete/).
Note the following message
The plugins site is currently in development.

We've been looking to provide a higher-quality, spam-free experience at the plugins site for some time, and a major error on our part forced us to shut down the current site before we could put the new one in place. We are developing a new site, and you can follow along with its development on GitHub. For more information about this transition, including steps you can take as a plugin author to prepare, please read our post about what's going on.
on the plugin site http://plugins.jquery.com/ The example above is a good illustration of how you shall search, where you shall look and what is going on. The jQuery project is absolutely a moving target. Here

http://www.jquerybuzz.com/

http://blog.jquery.com/

you may find some recent news about jQuery.

Related links:

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what- ... gins-site/

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/13/plugi ... new-again/
We’ve gotten a lot of feedback since last week’s announcement about the plugins site’s unfortunate tumble into oblivion, and I’d like to address a few of the most important concerns that have surfaced since.
“Could you make the old backup available for posterity?”

Yes. We can — and have. Over the weekend, we restored the most recent backup we had, and the original site is now living at archive.plugins.jquery.com; you should be able to browse through everything that’s there to your heart’s content. We also applied the most recent user information we had, so if you had an account on the old site at any point in the last year, it should still work. However, the site is closed to new user registrations. If you really need a new account, please get in touch with me personally and I can get that straightened out for you. We’ve also set up a redirect, so that if you should encounter any links to plugins.jquery.com in your browsing, you’ll (hopefully) end up at the corresponding page in the archive.
So here http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/ is the archive site with the same message as that in green above.

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