jQuery plugin detector

17 May 2009

This is an experimental bookmarklet which lists the jQuery plugins being used on any page. Try it out now:

To save the bookmarklet simply drag the above link to your bookmarks toolbar. It’s been tested successfully in Opera 9, Safari 4, FF2/3, IE6/7, and Chrome.

The list shown includes google links for each plugin; obviously not all plugins on all sites are available to the public so the links aren’t always very useful.

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So far there's been 10 Responses to
“jQuery plugin detector”

Cerium May 17th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

Nice one again, it will save us some time (because it avoid to take look at the source).

Hezi May 17th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

it simply rocks! thanks.

Bari May 17th, 2009 at 11:03 pm

It would be really very helpful. Thanks for this great stuff.

William May 18th, 2009 at 10:01 am

Nice, I was looking for something like this!

Stas May 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Cool indeed, but there can be a problem. According to Yahoo! recommendations, script links should be placed in the end of the page, but as I can see, this plugin sends only ‘head’ child tags, doesn’t it?

James May 18th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Thanks for the comments!

@Stas, Yahoo’s recomendation refers only to page-loading times. The benefits of keeping scripts at the bottom of the document are only relevant on newly loaded documents; not for appending new scripts to the document. Another benefit of keeping scripts at the bottom of the document is that no document.ready or window.onload handlers need to be used; but again, this only benefits newly loaded documents.

ps. I think you’re referring to this document: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom