dovalidate-js is the javascript validation library. It is one of the plugin which comes under the SWAPJS namespace - which is the core library still in development process.
This plugin or snippet is completely based on and inspired by James Padolsey's jQuery plugin 'autoResize'. The idea is to have text area expand automatically as the user types the content more than what text area was initially meant to accommodate.
I was in need for a flash gallery which will show photographs from my Picasa web album with the use of an API and which I could embed into my website with some simple configurable variables.