This essay—part of a series of OCLC Research projects to mobilize unique materials synthesizes evidence of what descriptive information people say they need for research.

The goal of TwUI is to build a high-quality UI framework designed specifically for the Mac.

dotjs is a Google Chrome extension that executes JavaScript files in ~/.js based on their filename.

CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and the editor will optionally help you with indentation.

The Before and After Demonstration is a multi-page resource that shows an inaccessible website and a retrofitted version of this same website. Each web page includes inline annotations that can be activated to highlight some of the key accessibility barriers or repairs. Each web page is also accompanied by an evaluation report to inform the developers on the level of conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web.

An expanding text area is a mutli-line text input field that expands in height to fit its contents. Commonly found in both desktop and mobile applications, such as the SMS composition field on the iPhone, it’s a good choice when you don’t know how much text the user will write and you want to keep the layout compact; as such, it’s especially useful on interfaces targeted at smartphones. Yet despite the ubiquity of this control, there’s no way to create it using only HTML and CSS, and most JavaScript solutions have suffered from guesswork, inaccuracy, or a lack of elegance … until now.

a DOM implementation in ANSI escape codes, render HTML to your terminal.

Mashups are becoming increasingly popular as end users are able to easily access, manipulate, and compose data from many web sources. We have observed, however, that mashups tend to suffer from deficiencies that propagate as mashups are reused. To address these deficiencies, we would like to bring some of the benefits of software engineering techniques to the end users creating these pro- grams. In this work, we focus on identifying code smells indicative of the deficiencies we observed in web mashups programmed in the popular Yahoo! Pipes environment. Through an empirical study, we explore the impact of those smells on end-user programmers and observe that users generally prefer mashups without smells. We then introduce refactorings targeting those smells, reducing the complexity of the mashup programs, increasing their abstraction, updating broken data sources and dated components, and standard- izing their structures to fit the community development patterns. Our assessment of a large sample of mashups shows that smells are present in 81% of them and that the proposed refactorings can re- duce the number of smelly mashups to 16%, illustrating the poten- tial of refactoring to support the thousands of end users program- ming mashups.

Deniz is a simple RDF browser written in Javascript.

The “Chromeless” project experiments with the idea of removing the current browser user interface and replacing it with a flexible platform which allows for the creation of new browser UI using standard web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
 
Instead building a whole new platform, we suggest that the web itself should be the platform. That a developer could design the browser using standard web technologies combined with a minimal set of new APIs to interact with the underlying operating system and control the application's user interface. This new functionality is exposed as lightweight conventions on top of the DOM and javascript modules exposed via the CommonJS packaging standard.

Javascript templating system for displaying JSON data.

Aristo is a beautiful theme for jQuery UI that emulates the elegant style of the Cappuccino JavaScript framework.

Welcome to the Time Explorer, an application designed for analyzing how news changes over time. Time Explorer extends upon current time-based systems in many important ways. First, Time Explorer is designed to help users discover how entities such as people and locations associated with a query change over time. Second, by searching on time expressions extracted automatically from text, the application allows the user to explore not only how topics evolved the past, but also how they will continue to evolve in the future.

Simple javascript (+backend) library for web-annotation.

FlexPaper displays documents in your favorite browser using flash. Its way of reusing display containers makes it possible to view large documents and books.

IIPImage is an Open Source light-weight streaming client-server system for the web-based viewing and zooming of ultra high-resolution images.

IIPImage is a light-weight client-server system for fast and efficient online viewing and zooming of ultra high-resolution JPEG2000 and TIFF images.

Increasing use of AI means smarter-than-average searchers constantly need to learn tricks in order to counteract the AI that assumes a user base of average consumers.

An easy way of making inlines orderable using drag-and-drop, using jQuery UI's sortable() plugin.

Modest Maps JS is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based
maps in Javascript.

The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

"Rather than moving towards amalgamation and interoperability across databases, you really get the sense that everybody’s been busy grabbing at whatever piles of text they can lay their hands on, building the biggest little mudhill they can manage to put up, and then building walls around it. There are interstitial services that help a user 'jump' from one little fragmented collection to another and portals that aim to be a 'top level' to return to, sure, but we should be doing better by now."

I see signs that the essential freedoms of the web are being undermined by a cadre of companies through the introduction of new technologies and interfaces that, combined, may spell the death of the URL.

Comprehensive comparison of web-based timeline tools.

REST in Place is an AJAX Inplace-Editor that talks to RESTful controllers. It requires absolutely no additional server-side code if your controller fulfills the following REST preconditions: 1) It uses the HTTP PUT method to update a record, and 2) It delivers an object in JSON form for requests with “Accept: application/javascript” headers.

A simple componentised framework constructed in Javascript to enable the sharing of Ajax Style extensions to a web interface. The framework is applicable to any environment which, via identifiers contained within a html page, needs to link to or embed external resources.

We make it easy to explore the events in the timeline, just move your mouse over an event and a pop-up will appear with a longer description and a link to search for related pages. Beyond people, timelines can be a useful tool for displaying information about a period in history, such as the Great Depression. Or a famous sports arena, like Madison Square Garden. Or, say, the highest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct.

The main aim of this task is to explore how hardware or software tools for reading e-books can provide support to users engaged with a variety of reading related activities, such as fact finding or learning.

Narrow by image similarity or tags.

Zoomify makes high-quality images zoom-and-pan for fast, interactive viewing on the web. Just JPEGs, HTML, and Flash.

Rolling your own maps need not be an intimidating affair, provided you understand the problem and the tools to fix it.

The DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) has adopted the Tiresias Screenfont as the standard font for the MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), which many set-top box and digital TV manufacturers are using as their standard development platform.

BrowserPlus™ is a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.

It joins the SWI-Prolog RDF and HTTP infrastructure with a SeRQL/SPARQL query engine, interfacing to the The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) and libraries that support semantic search.

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies.

POW is a fully-functional open source (GPL) webserver that works inside your browser.

FakeSmile is a SMIL implementation written in ECMAScript.

Dokan Library is similar to FUSE (Linux user mode file system) but works on Windows.

A software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

Updating Dostoevsky’s mystical fable to a future, Fox network style reality. Public Eye Films partnered with Cruxy.com to expand the possibilities for online distribution and to create new user interfaces for hyperlinked entertainment.

This jQuery plugin is used to implement the search box and reconcile user input on edits at Freebase.com

Dandelife is a place for you to record the events of your life, past and present, public and private.

SHAME is a library that leverages editors, presentations and query interfaces for resource centric RDF metadata.

Taxonomy of emoji characters supported by the major Japanese characters, with proposed mappings to Unicode.

Querying by location, time and/or pollutant concentration is useful for researchers and others familiar with air quality data. But for people not familiar with what PM2.5 is or the significance of 65 ug/m3, searching by event type is useful.

Most news websites could let you see the stories they published on any particular day but few seem to offer such a view. Browsing events in this way is either deemed unpopular or not something sites want you to do.

The clips convey information that the searcher may not have known to look for—often simply through the layout and typeface, which an engine such as Nexis doesn’t preserve.

Powercursor is a software toolkit in Flash for designing interfaces you can touch.

SVG fonts and animation are not on the development schedule for Firefox 3. Here are some thoughts about what would be needed to implement these features.

The implementation of the Controlled Vocabulary takes great steps to help reduce inappropriate tagging, and to ease translation into any of the 12 languages now offered on iStock, by categorizing the search terms into a huge vocabulary tree.

Nice demonstration of Flex2 charting features.

We gather stories of all shapes and sizes from countless perspectives around the world, and then present them in a rich browseable landscape, helping you make connections you never knew existed.

Common patterns of how AJAX interfaces look, and what users can do with them.

The dominant way in which most people will “program” the web is by writing metadata, not code, and we’ll need an interface as friendly and powerful as Pipes to help them do that.

It’s time to take a look at how microformat detection could potentially appear in the user interface of a future version of Firefox.

Browsable map of nodes in the IUPAC Gold Book, a compendium of chemical terminology, with semantic links between them.

A sample list of some of the enhanced articles is available at the bottom of this page.

WiiToMidi allows you to convert signals from a Nintendo Wii controller to MIDI signals.

This extension displays the related web pages of the current web page, using HTML document relationships.

A target element can be represented by the :target pseudo-class. If the document's URI has no fragment identifier, then the document has no target element.

[Database] interfaces are modeled on existing genres and media, including the museum because of its archiving and classifying functions...

How do you sell your API? Help your visitors visualize the end result as they attempt to gauge the amount of work and expertise needed to implement.

The data is stored in JSON files, and the database is implemented in Javascript and running inside the web browser.

DarwiinRemote is a tiny software which reads data from and sends data to Nintendo Wii Remote.

Proposed W3C standard for widget packaging and interfaces.

Neave.tv is an experimental use of video over the web, lovingly powered by Blip.tv, Google Video and You Tube.

/facet is a generic browser for heterogeneous semantic web repositories.

The objective of this project is the development of a set of e-culture demonstrators providing multimedia access to distributed collections of cultural heritage objects.

Composing, nurturing, collecting, maintaining, and making associations within information; the environments and related tools in which these activities take place; and the theory behind these activities and environments.

A simple revision system allows users to drag a slider and quickly review their documents history from conception to the current date, the document unfolding as they drag.

In SweetWiki we investigate the design of a wiki built around a semantic web server i.e. the use of semantic web technologies to support and ease the lifecycle of the wiki.

Interactive 3D instant replays for sporting events.

Developing techniques to index and browse digital video.

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events.

Samsung's interactive movie maker--drag icons onto a grid to determine the plot, style, mood, and content.

Grids CSS is a suite of seven web page templates and the ability to nest grids of one to four columns within the content area of those templates.

Each chain is an open digital image mutation collaboration, displayed like threads in a forum. Each link in the chain should be in some way a derivative of the previous image.

Enjoy amazing, super sharp photos from some of the world's finest photographers, along with full story captions, delivered right to your desktop.

The Superimposed Pluggable Architecture for Contexts and Excerpts (SPARCE) is a middleware architecture for superimposed information management.