Best jQuery Status Message Plugin?

Question

What is the best jQuery status message plugin?

I like jGrowl and Purr, but jGrowl doesn't have the feature to remain sticky (not close automatially) and Purr doesn't seem to work right in IE 6.

I would like to show messages like... the site is about to go down for maintenance, your such and such job has completed, and stuff like that.

Answer 1

jGrowl does look to have sticky - see sample 2 in the demo page:

https://github.com/stanlemon/jGrowl

...ah - or did you mean after the page has reloaded?

I would then handle this on the server side - i.e. include a sitedown.js that triggers the growl notice each time any page is visited.

Answer 2

A few options...

• Humanized Messages (demo, 3 KB) looks very cool, and has a nice history rollout
• Pines Notify (13 KB) is extremely customizable and supports jQuery UI themes
• jGrowl (6 KB) does actually have a sticky option - use { sticky: true }

Answer 3

I really like this humanmessage plugin. You can customize it to hang around longer and change the appearance, etc --

http://code.google.com/p/humanmsg/

Answer 4

In order of my preference

• Noty http://needim.github.com/noty/ 6kb | Requires jQuery | Github

• Humane-JS https://github.com/wavded/humane-js | Demo | GitHub

• JQuery UI Growl Notification http://www.erichynds.com/jquery/a-jquery-ui-growl-ubuntu-notification-widget/

• Pines Notify http://pinesframework.org/pnotify/ 15KB | SourceForge-Mercurial

• SmokeJS https://github.com/jyoungblood/smoke.js | Github

• js Message http://dhtmlx.github.com/message/ 4KB | MIT | GIthub

Answer 5

We have started using http://boedesign.com/demos/gritter/ and have to say it accomplishes the osx growl feel better than the others listed out of the box.

Answer 6

We found following simple code from west-wind very helpful in our project.

http://www.beyondweblogs.com/post/Display-Fancy-Status-Message-using-JQuery.aspx

Answer 7

• I used jQuery Noty plugin before, but after v2 it doesn't use css file. You should include too much js file if you use different options.

• Toastr is a good alternative. Usage is simple and it is actively developed project.
  It has top-full-width and bottom-full-width option without using any other js file.

  Repo: https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr
  Demos: http://codeseven.github.io/toastr/

• Pnotify is very detailed and easy to use plugin. It has too many options that looks fun and has a very helpful demo page.

  Repo: https://github.com/sciactive/pnotify
  Demos: http://pinesframework.org/pnotify/#demos-simple

Answer 8

Here's an Outlook Popup style notification jQuery widget:

• jQuery.UI Messenger\Outlook like message notification Widget

• Demo

Answer 9

There is a pretty nice humanized message one here: http://www.websanova.com/plugins/humanmsg/jquery#websanova