jQuery charToTable plugin

2007-07-12

I was playing with jQuery and tables yesterday, and got a weird idea: what about converting characters to tables using jQuery?

The idea evolved and I started to write a new jQuery plugin, charToTable.

I really don't know if someone will find it useful, but it actually works fine.

It uses some PHP + GD to convert a character to an image, and then to a JSON object containing the glyph matrix.

Finally, jQuery.getJSON loads it, and the callback function simply creates the table.

Demos:

• Basic demo
• Glyph editor
• String to tables
• Animated jQuery

Download:

• jQuery charToTable plugin
• PHP script which converts a character to a JSON object

Ideas to improve it:

• antialiased characters
• imageToTable
• animated charToTable

Any feedback welcome!