With an update so big that it had to skip a whole point, i'm happy to announce that GetGravatar is now updated to 1.2. Now with 100% less PHP required, and 50% less AJAX calls!

Basically, I removed the dependency on the PHP file, and integrated a couple of functions from the awesome php.js project in order to speed things up significantly.

Quick download link

Parameters

• fallback (string): URL to your placeholder image for if the user does not have a Gravatar. Must be an exact URL.
• avatarSize (number, 0-512): Size in pixels of the gravatar to fetch.
• avatarContainer (string): jQuery style selector of the tag to put the gravatar in once it’s loaded. Default is "#gravatar".
• start (function): Function to run when it starts loading. Perfect place to put code for a Loading indicator.
• stop (function): Function to run when it’s done loading. Perfect place to put code to hide a Loading indicator.

Code examples:

Barebones usage:

Simple parameters:

$("#email-address").getGravatar({
	fallback: 'http://myurl.com/images/default.png'
});

More parameters:

$("#email-address").getGravatar({
	fallback: 'http://myurl.com/images/default.png',
	avatarSize: 80,
	avatarContainer: '#gravatar-container'
});

Specify start and stop functions

$("#email-address").getGravatar({
	start: function(){
		$("loading").show();
	},
	stop: function(){
		$("loading").hide();
	}
});

You can download the plugin below:

Or check it out on Github.

I prefer sparklines with a thicker line, something like 2-3px looks better to me than thin 1px lines in charts. I recently needed to use the jQuery sparklines plugin but there was no parameter for how to make the line thicker. After much searching through the source code I found the answer.

First, make sure you have a copy of the non-minified version so you can see what you’re doing.

Find line 796 and change context.lineWidth to however thick you want the line to be. This changes the code for the canvas implementation.

To make it work in IE as well, find line 880 and change strokeWeight to the same # you used above. This changes the code for the VML implementation.

Hope this helps someone out. Perhaps the owner of jQuery Sparkline can make this a built in parameter. It seems like something that many people would want to change.