What's New (page 4 of 7)

January 12th, 2004

JsDOMenu Credits: Toh Zhiqiang
JsDOMenu is back, and with a vengeance! A few months ago we featured version 1.0 of this script. Well, 1.1.3 has now arrived, with new features that make this menu truly usable and practical. JsDOMenu can now act as both a context or regular, absolutely positioned menu, with support for unlimited submenus and a wide variety of browser support.

Sticky Note script Credits: Dynamic Drive
Sticky Note is an attractive DHTML script that pops up at the center of the page to display anything of your choice. Customize everything from how often the Note should appear on the page, for how long, and whether a fade-in effect should be accompanied. A great script to broadcast important messages to your users!

December 12, 2003

Advanced Gallery script Credits: Dynamic Drive
This robust gallery script allows you to display and rotate entire blocks of HTML on demand. Display images, text, or rich HTML in a dynamic manner. Set the script to automatically cycle through the contents like in a scroller, or via manual selecting through a drop down menu. Very cool!

December 8th, 2003

Translucent slide show Credits: Dynamic Drive
Don't just display images, showcase them in style using this sleek image slideshow script! Images are animated in from the left edge, with a translucent effect applied during the process. Each image can be independently hyperlinked and with its own link target.

Document Magnifier Credits: Christian Patzer
This script takes full advantage of IE5.5's zoom-in feature to allow you to selectively magnify any area of a webpage. Just updated to version 2.0, which features improved user interface and bug fixes.

November 17th, 2003

Cool DHTML Tooltip Credits: Dynamic Drive
This script evolved from us wanting to replace the original DHTML Tooltip script, which made a huge and unnecessary production out of the simple "document.title" attribute of HTML. Well, the replacement script is a lot more relevant, practical, and elegant. Use it to display additional information about a link or any other element when the mouse moves over it. A customizable tooltip pops up, which works in all modern DHTML browsers- IE4+, NS6+, and Opera 7+.

3D spinning message Credits: Peter Gehrig
How about some good PR for IE's VML (vector markup language) technology? 3D Spinning Message uses it to display/rotate messages on the top of the page via a circular animation. Everything from the size of the "circle" to the colors of the text can be customized. A good script to capture people's attention.

October 30th, 2003

Basic Calendar Credits: Brian Gosselin
If you need a simple, elegant calendar to display the current days of the month, Basic Calendar is an excellent script for the purpose. Uses CSS to allow easy changing to its appearance, everything from calendar dimensions, colors, down to the font used to highlight the current day.

Book Flip slideshow Credits: Ger Versluis
We're pleased to roll out another visually impressive DHTML slideshow by Ger. This one simulates a page turning to reveal two new slides (images) at once. Each slide can be linked, and furthermore, the slideshow supports both horizontal and vertical flipping. Enjoy!

October 3rd, 2003

Carousel slideshow Credits: Ger Versluis
Display and showcase images in a 3D, carousel fashion with this highly unique, great slideshow script. Each image can optionally be hyperlinked, with the direction of the slideshow configurable as well.

Phong II Credits: Nathan
Phong, or DHTML Ping Pong, is back, ready to take you on when you are. This version is DOM2 powered, and works in IE, NS6+, and Opera7+.

September 26th, 2003

Image Thumbnail Viewer Credits: Dynamic Drive
If you showcase images of any type on your site, this script should come in handy. It allows you to set up text links or image thumbnails that when clicked on, loads the intended image on the screen, inline within the same page. The image can be dragged around and set to center on the page.

The script is a rewrite of the original Image Thumbnail Viewer. A noteworthy point that offers a glimpse into where we're heading is that in this new script, we've decided to remove the codes pertaining to NS4. This resulted in a much leaner script, and we find the time is now ripe to start removing NS4 support within new and modified scripts when the benefits are clear.

September 22nd, 2003

Document Text Sizer Credits: T Kang
Wired.com has this feature. So does Netscape DevEdge. We're talking about the ability for the visitor to resize the web site's text on demand. With Taewook's script, your site can have it too! Visitors click on an Increase or Decrease Font Size link to control the page's text size at will.

September 1st, 2003

Multi-part content script Credits: Dynamic Drive
This great script enables long content on your page to be viewed in sequential view. It break up arbitrary content into multiple parts, viewable one part at a time via "back" and "foward" links. Now that's Dynamic HTML at work!

August 4th, 2003

Different CSS depending on Operating System Credits: Dynamic Drive
This script allows you to conditionally apply two different style sheets to your page depending on whether the user's Operating System is Mac or PC (default). The style sheet to load can either be two global inline styles or external CSS files.

July 21st, 2003

Switch Content Script Credits: Dynamic Drive
You're going to love this one. This useful script allows you to make arbitrary content on your webpage contract/expand on demand. The user clicks on designated headers to reveal additional content. The script comes with an optional persistence feature to help it remember the folding state of the content when the user exists the page. A great way to save space while organizing content on your webpage into more managable portions to the viewer.

DHTML Tip Message Credits: Essam Gamal
Well, it certainly created a nice little dilemma, but in the end, we decided it was best simply to replace the popular OverLib script (branded as Popup Information Box on DD) with a new, leaner script by Essam. DHTML Tip Message helps describe important links on your page by popping up a rich information box. It is extremely versatile in its placement and special effects to render as the tooltip is being displayed.

June 30th, 2003

Switch Menu Credits: Martial B
Switch Menu is a unique navigational script with characteristics of a folding tree. It dynamically expands the chosen menu item when clicked on (revealing the containing links) while contracting the rest. Uses the DOM of IE5/NS6+ while degrading nicely with older browsers.

Flashing links script Credits: Dynamic Drive
The Flashing link script has become popular as an easy way to draw attention to important links on your page. Just rewritten for NS6/Opera7 functionality plus a much more efficient algorithm.

June 16th, 2003

Disable "Enter" key in form script Credits: Nurul Fadilah
Is the user pressing the "Enter" key in the middle of your form causing inadvertent and incomplete form submissions? This script disable the "Enter" key when pressed inside chosen fields of your choice. Moreover, it then advances the cursor to the next field within the form. Very useful.

Required field(s) validation Credits: L.K Toh
This popular script by Toh checks all fields of your choice to see whether they're filled out before permitting the form to submit. Just updated to check radio buttons as well.

June 11th, 2003

The Matrix Text effect Credits: Richard Womersley
It is said you must see The Matrix to understand it. Well, same thing perhaps with this awesome Matrix Text Effect- it renders digital letters that drop down gradually to form the phrase of your choice, just like in the movie. Just don't stare at it too long and get sucked in!

May 21st, 2003

Collapsible Frame script Credits: Dynamic Drive
If your site uses frames, a fantastic feature to add would be the ability to collapse/expand a particular frame on user demand. This allows a frame to be tucked away when it's not needed. This script enables you to do just that, and is functional in both IE4+ and NS6+. Completely rewritten from old "Collapsible Left Frame" script.

Email Riddler Credits: Dynamic Drive
Email Riddler is an online tool that encrypts and transform your email address into a series of numbers when displaying it, making it virtually impossible for spam harvesters to crawl and add your email to their list. Take that spam bots!

April 21st, 2003

ProHTML Ticker
Tired of the meticulous format required when entering messages into JavaScript Tickers? ProHTML Ticker rotates regular HTML messages wrapped around simply in DIV tags, making updating its content a breeze!

Combo Box Viewer Credits: Dynamic Drive
Looking for a dynamic way to display content on your page that's easy to implement as well? The Combo-box Viewer script allows users to selectively view HTML content on your page via a drop down menu. Each content is simply wrapped inside a special <DIV> tag.

March 26th, 2003

Left-right Image Slideshow Script Credits: Dynamic Drive
It's old, except it's new! This popular image slideshow script, which slides images into view images from right to left in a "pushy" manner, has just been upgraded with several bug fixes plus the all important NS6 and Opera 7 compatibility!

Presentational slideshow Credits: Dynamic Drive
We got our inspiration for this script from the frontpage of MSNBC (midpage), where they use a similar device to scroll through pictures. This cool script displays and rotates images in a "presentational", left-to-right sliding manner. Images can be optionally hyperlinked.

Feburary 25th, 2003

Browser Sniffer script Credits: BrotherCake
This browser sniffer script detects all the major browsers currently available, and passes the results on as variables to facilitate your browser detection needs. It differentiates between Windows, Mac and Linux, and the most commonly used DHTML browsers - IE4/5/6, Netscape 4/6/7/other Gecko, Konqueror 2.2+, Safari, Opera 5/6/7, and "other."

VML Editor Credits: Jacco IJzerman
VML (Vector Markup Language) is a text based vector graphics format proprietary to Internet Explorer. Jacco has created the following powerful VML editor to allow you to use your mouse to visually render basic VML text and shapes, with the corresponding VML codes then generated. A powerful demonstration of DHTML and VML.

Feburary 5th, 2003

George's Expandable ticker Credits: Dynamic Drive
Quite possibly the only ticker of its kind out there, George's Expandable Ticker brings together the best of two worlds to create a ticker that can be viewed both sequentially and simultaneously, via a dropdown menu. Very cool, just as practical!

January 24th, 2003

One of the goals here at Dynamic Drive is to get every script to live up to its full potential! With that in mind, two popular scripts have just been updated by us with some useful improvements:

1) Open links in new window
Add the option of allowing links on your page to be opened in a new window with this powerful script. A simple checkbox toggles between current and new window. Updated to allow links to open in a set secondary window (versus a new window each time).

2) Open offsite links in new window
Concerned about people leaving your site when navigating to offsite links? A derivative of above script, this one targets only links not of your domain to open in a new window. Updated to allow multiple domains to be added to the "excluded" list.

January 10th, 2003

Flexi slide show Credits: Dynamic Drive
One of the biggest complaints of regular image slideshows is that the participating images must be of the same width/height. Well, Flexi Slideshow can accommodate images of different dimensions, and also, optional text beneath any slide.