Jgrowl

markbao · on July 7, 2008

jQuery is the best Javascript library ever. seriously, plugins, their structure, and in 30kb. And no weird licensing like ExtJS :/

misterbwong · on July 7, 2008

Upped. I've only been using jQuery for about 3 months and it has continually impressed me with its large feature-set and ease of development.

michaelneale · on July 7, 2008

I would say they are for different things really. ExtJS is all about pre build widgets you can compose into other widgets, saving work, but sticking within how they work and look (skinnable). jQuery gives you much more control but at a lower level (widget wise).

bprater · on July 7, 2008

One of the advantages of Growl being run at the OS level is that all apps can fire to Growl and the user see it. An in-browser Growl is going to be limited to firing events only while the user is on the same page.

dcurtis · on July 7, 2008

I don't think the applications of jgrowl are the same as the system growl alerts.

I imagine this being used for webapp-specific notifications, much the same way as iminlikewithyou.

jacobbijani · on July 7, 2008

Or thesixtyone.com, which (over)uses an almost identical growl clone.

mattdennewitz · on July 7, 2008

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xo33_-jvdhI

i made a mockup of the same concept w/ an ajax heartbeat triggering the messages (mootools 1.11 instead of jquery), but never released it. kinda shakin' my head now :)

sant0sk1 · on July 7, 2008

The extensibility of jQuery continues to move the library forward in cool new ways. Love it.

jamongkad · on July 8, 2008

I was about to write my own version of Growl. But good thing this library managed to float up.

jrockway · on July 7, 2008

Here is a MooTools version: http://digitarald.de/project/roar/

I like jQuery, but I think this is better than Jgrowl.

dkasper · on July 8, 2008

What's better about it?

nirmal · on July 8, 2008

Messages placed along the right side of the screen appear off the edge of the page and therefore create a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen.

jrockway · on July 8, 2008

Personally, I like the default visual effects better.

Deadsunrise · on July 7, 2008

Firefox 3 with a bunch of addons crash when I click on the demo links.

icey · on July 7, 2008

By any chance do you have an old version of Firebug loaded? It used to crash my FF a lot until I upgraded it to the newest version.

Deadsunrise · on July 7, 2008

Thanks, I thought that I had the last version but I had 1.2.0b3. Updating to 1.2.0b4 fixed the crashes.

geuis · on July 7, 2008

tried on the iPhone. Works, but the messages don't appear near where the user action is being done so if I am not zoomed out, nothing appears to be happening.

jey · on July 7, 2008

You should write a patch!