I’ve been a busy bee. Today I released numerous new plugins and scripts for your holiday enjoyment.

Pointy Things

First up is an extension to StickyWin.ui that gives you a popup layout with a pointer. There’s a lot more about this in the wikitorials, but here’s a quick overview:

• You can point the pointer in any direction around the tip. The directions map to the hours on a clock face, so 12 is pointing up in the middle, 1 is pointing up, but on the right, and on around the tip.
• There are two default themes, a dark one and a light one.
• The ui can be used to quickly generate the DOM wrapper for use in anything, but there’s also a new StickyWin class that makes it easy to drop a tip into the page next to an element, pointing at that element from the left, right, or from above or below.
• There’s an extension to the Tips class (Tips.Pointy) that works just like the Tips class but has a pointer.
• There’s an extension to the FormValidator class (FormValidator.Tips) that uses this to point out errors in the form in a pointy popup.

Here’s a quick example:

Event Delegation

Next up we have automatic event delegation for Elements with Element.Delegate. I’ll write a longer post about this in a moment, but in the mean time check out the tutorial/demo.

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