Backbone.Notifier is a powerful UI notifications framework for displaying and controlling UI notifications.
It is built on top of jQuery, Backbone.js + Underscore.js and has many cool features like a 3D module or animations support.
The notifications can be displayed on the top or in the middle, modal notifications exist and it is possible to set custom styles via CSS + JS API.

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Messages can be timed to be shown or hidden as wished, an integrated loader exists and there are pre-defined styles: default, info, error, warning and success.
Requirements: jQuery, Backbone.js and Underscore.js
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Website: http://e-w.co.il/backbone.notifier/
Download: https://github.com/ewebdev/backbone.notifier/