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brador
Menu on left is unusable mess (Firefox, win) but awesome work bringing it all together.
obtu
That menu doesn't play well with text zoom, I think.
crag
The menu's font needs changing too (Safari, MBA). Why ever use a "fancy" font? Make it easy to read.
[dead] sohilv
awesome collection thanks !
jwdunne
The demos were a lot of fun to play with. Especially the living.forms one under FORMS + CONTROLS. It's just a shame I can't seem to link to the individual pages!
kristaps
Useful content, but highly questionable choice for the menu font.
cgarvey
No need to beat around the bush, it's terrible.
XLcommerce
Why not link directly to the original demos/tutorials? Why is the repo actively designed to block me from finding the original authors?

This is quite bizarre. Not even the zip files have attributions... wtf is this?

eg: gloss under effects + UI has absolutely no context and the original can be found here: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gloss

by someone called Alaa Badran.

Scraped content, stolen link juice and no attribution in the repo zip, instead there's a text file with www.DAVIDHIGGINS.me/repo/ link????

classy

swatermasysk
Agree big time. Not a single link to the original authors is a travesty, shame, and a mockery...it's a traveshamockery.
sycren
In effects + ui > zoomer plugin, I can't scroll down the page at all, bug?
nolok
If you're using that "tweet to download" thing or anything remotely similar, please be aware that I will make a point not to use your website/product/whatever.

My social circle is not a free place for you to put ads, if you want me to put a good word for you there you will need to earn it.

Also, none of those scroller plugins seems to handle my mouse wheel correctly in both direction (up and down).

marknutter
What if it said "Tweet or pay $X to download"?
eberfreitas
> if you want me to put a good word for you there you will need to earn it

isn't the download the way to earn it?

hughesdan
Very nice. Hunting for the perfect plugin is very time consuming. Thanks for doing the leg work.
marknutter
What I'd rather see is a well thought out list of the absolute best jQuery plugin for each type of plugin; the best validation plugin, the best accordion plugin, etc.
Jd
For a just-released handpicked plugin repository, you would think that all the plugins would work. Not so... (FF 7, OSX Lion). There are even a lot of plugins that reduplicate the (generally much better) functionality in jQueryUI.
XLcommerce
Not only that, but the content is shamelessly scraped without even the decency of including an attribution to the original authors.

This post should be getting flagged and thrown out!

[dead] 9ec4c12949a4f3
If by "supercharged" they mean "Lets put a lot of useless web2.0 bloat into the page that slows it down but doesn't really add value to the user or our bottom line", great work.
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[dead] ehutch79
Lots of pages linked don't work well (chrome, mac) if at all. There are reports of the side menu being buggy. It looks like a frames page out of 1998.

why would i trust this person to pick high quality plugins for me?

mattmillr
I bailed the first time the site told me to upgrade to Firefox. I'm using Chrome 15, but that shouldn't matter. A modern site purporting to offer jQuery plugins should support all modern browsers.
username3
I think that was a demo for activebar.