What is Atify?
The purpose of Atify, is to automatically link twitter names on a page to their twitter.com profile. For example, the script will pick up @jarques and replace it with a link. That way I don't have to link it myself inside the HTML.
Why do this?
No real reason, just an easier way to link to say, @meltingice and other twitter names on a page.
Hashtags anyone?
By adding a hashtag: true parameter when enabling Atify, it will also link hashtags to twitter search, such as #atify or even #beatcancer.
How do I use this?
Using Atify is extremely simple, you'll need to download and add jQuery and Atify to your page:
<script src="jquery" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="atify.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
Next, all you need to do now is call the Atify method on any given element. For the examples above you can do:
$("#content").atify();
$("#hash_example").atify({hashtag: true});
Follow @jarques and @meltingice, if you're interested in contributing to the code visit the Github page.