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jQuery 1.4, MooTools 1.2 Compared

February 5, 2010

I recently read “jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know” over at Nettuts and thought it would be interesting to compare the features of MooTools 1.2 to the new features in Jquery 1.4, released 18 months later. Enjoy!

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Google Apps to Drop IE6 Support in 2010

February 2, 2010

Just got this exciting email from Google Apps–though I’m afraid this still isn’t enough to be able to ignore IE6 within the next year.

Dear Google Apps admin,​ In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements [...]

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MooTools ThreeSixty Viewer Featuring the iPad

February 1, 2010

I thought Apple’s new 360 degree product viewer was flippin’ awesome. So I created a feature light version in mootools last night. I hope to add more (like throwing) and clean up the api a bit, but still, this is sweet.

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Question: Why did you choose MooTools?

January 30, 2010

I’ll start: I was goofing around with prototype + scriptaculous, jquery, and mootools all at the same time. I was getting frustrated by all three since I was bouncing around between them. Finally, I had to make a decision about which framework I would settle into before learning the others. I [...]

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MooTools Fx.Transitions Demo

January 28, 2010

The old demos for mootools 1.11 had a fun little widget that showcased the different transitions available in mootools. I’ve recreated it here. Just click anywhere in the box to see the transition. Enjoy!

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MooTools For Beginners Part 7 – Creating Flexible Classes Using Options, Events, and Event Management

January 27, 2010

Last time we compartmentalized some code into a nice little MooTools Class called BouncyMenu that we can use anywhere. However, there are some HUGE improvements to be made. In this article we’ll be talking about how to make your MooTools Class flexible by using Implements, Options, and Events. We’ll also talk about managing events added to elements and some discussion about binding. If you still consider yourself a beginner, understanding this article should be a big deal. Once you master Class your javascript will never be the same.

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Screencast: Adding Your Own MooTools Plugins to the Forge

January 26, 2010

The MooTools forge is awesome. This screencast shows you how to make it more awesome by adding your own mootools plugins to the forge. It features my newest plugin, Fx.Scroll.Carousel, though I wish I could have done this screencast for SlideShow instead, since it’s my favorite plugin I’ve made so far. Enjoy!

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MooTools for Beginners Part 6 – Coding an Animated Menu with `Class`

January 19, 2010

When I first started working with MooTools I was writing code that was typically a series of functions and a lot of logic inside of my domready code. After a while I had a nagging feeling that there was a better way to write code. There is, and it’s called Class. If MooTools were barbeque, Class would be the sauce–and the sauce is the boss. In this and the next few articles in MooTools for Beginners I hope to write the articles I was looking for when figuring how to write javascript with Class.

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Event Delegation with MooTools–Quit Selecting all Those Elements!

January 16, 2010

Event delegation rules the school. Instead of adding events to 300 elements you just add an event to the parent element and it’ll delegate the event down to it’s children, like every good parent would. The benefits? 1) Efficiency, 2) “Set it and forget it”, 3) Makes attaching and detaching events in a class easier, 4) Makes you look cool, and that after all, is the point of being a web developer instead of a surfing instructor.

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JQuery 1.4’s new ‘until’ methods caught my eye … introducing Element.GetUntil

January 15, 2010

So I did what every good mootools developer would … extended MooTools to do the same.

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