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I put yesterday's unmask password plugin together with the code to automatically create a checkbox to control it, and removed the dependency on jQuery UI. Download the code. Example <input type="password" id="password"/> $('#password').showPassword('Show Characters as I Type'); Use $('[type=password]').showPassword(string) creates a checkbox as above with string as the label. If the checkbox is checked then [...]

tl;dr Download the code. Use $.validateHTML5(callback), where callback (result, data) is a function that is called with the result, a string that can be "valid" if the page validated, "invalid" if it did not, "warning" if it validated but is "in some way questionable", or "not validated" if some error occurred. data is the actual [...]

There's been some interest in putting flexcal and all its dependencies into a single file (that would be jquery.ui.subclass.js, jquery.textpopup.js, jquery.flexcal.js, and flexcal.html). The problem with putting it all into a ZIP file is keeping it updated; I don't have an automated make-like system and there's no way I'm going to remember to keep the [...]

In a major burst of middle-of-the-night hacking, I've updated flexcal to better handle changing options after instantiation and added a current option, representing the currently highlighted date. I also updated textpopup with a new option, box that allows you to set the popup's container, useful for inline widgets. The flexcal API examples use it for [...]

For those following flexcal, my jQuery UI date picker, I've just released version 1.3. It fixes a bug in the setDate routine that would cause it to fail if called before the calendar was shown, and added date filtering. See the original post (now updated) for details.