MooTools
Three Things You Should do with an Element-based MooTools Class
March 16, 2010
Is your MooTools class centered around an element? Here are three things you ought to be doing with it that you probably aren’t.
Extending Element with your MooTools Class is Awesome
Almost every class that is centered around an element deserves a few element shortcuts. You’ve used them plenty of times already but maybe you haven’t written one.
Object Oriented jQuery with MooTools (Pigs take flight)
March 4, 2010
If Element (with it’s dependencies) and jQuery as a whole are practically the same, what’s the big difference? Remove the overlap of the two frameworks and you’re left with the inheritance model of MooTools found in it’s module Class and the native extensions found in Native.
What happens if you use only Native and Class from MooTools to get an inheritence model and plug in jQuery for everything else? Yep, jQuery as a plugin for MooTools. Or inversely and maybe more appropriate, MooTools object oriented programming for jQuery.
11 Tips for Creating Great MooTools Plugins
February 16, 2010
Here’s a sort of “best practices” that I follow when creating mootools classes in no particular order whatsoever.
Check the forge before starting Extend existing classes Add and remove events with methods named attach & detach Create Elements in methods named build Store the main element(s) as this.element & this.elements Ensure religiously that this always references the class instance Write methods to [...]
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!
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!
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!
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.