I noticed that when I happen to read a blog post, have to search for the keyword demo and skip 3 pages in order to see it in action, just to know if it's worth reading. Well, I hope that I'm starting a new trend :D

here's the DEMO

Ok, now the boring part.

ui.toaster.js is my my first try to make a official jQuery plugin, or more exactly a jQuery UI widget.

For a intranet application project, I needed a way to show small notification messages from the server. I used Ajax to poll the server, but what's the optimal way to display the message ? Then I thought that using a notification window like Thunderbird or MSN messager would do the job.

Obviously I started by searching for an existing plugin, there was one called toaster by Mike Sago that did mostly wat I wanted. I liked jGrawl by Stan Lemon, but it did not do exacly what I wanted.

The only problem was that it was an orphan experimental project. I contacted him and asked if I could take over where he left, he promptly accepted.

• Documention
• Code