imgix
imgix.js is a javascript library that allows you to easily use the imgix API to make images on your site or app responsive to device size and pixel density. imgix.js allows for intuitive use of imgix features such as text formatting, color palette extraction, color adjustments, effects, and watermarking. imgix.js requires an imgix account to use your own images. Sign up at imgix.com
Cloudinary
Cloudinary streamlines your web application’s image manipulation needs. Cloudinary's cloud-based servers automate image uploading, resizing, cropping, optimizing, sprite generation and more. Cloudinary's jQuery plugin allows direct uploading from the browser to the cloud and dynamic cloud-based image transformations and effects.
Robert Saß
.subordinate() is a combination of .append() and .find(). It appends an element but returns this new created jQuery object. That makes your code way much shorter and cleaner, when building complex DOM structures on-the-fly.