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When you think about animation on the internet, chances are some of the first tools that come to mind are Flash, Microsoft’s Silverlight and maybe even Animated GIFs. It has only been in the past couple of years that JavaScript and the frameworks built around it have really matured into languages that neatly support basic animation primes like chained time delays, basic motion and simple special effects – so it’s never been a better time to start experimenting with what they can do!.

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jQuery is one of the most widely adopted javascript frameworks in the wild with millions of developers around the World using it daily in their projects. As a result of it’s growth, developers have been able to let their imagination run wild when it comes to designing exciting new interfaces that are both rich, exciting and intuitive.

In this post I’m going to share the top 22 pages using jQuery that I felt deserved a mention – you’ll everything from fun but humble new ways to offer your users a Captcha to a completely javascript based Robot animation. Heard about the Google API but haven’t had the chance to play around with it yet?

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