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Fx.Scroll, Fx.Morph, Fx.Elements, and MooTools 1.3 Unified Timer
June 9, 2010
MooTools 1.2 has a few different ways to do what seems like the same thing: Fx.Tween, Fx.Morph and Fx.Elements. A friend of mine recently asked what the difference was with each. What adds more to the fun is that MooTools 1.3 has some internal stuff going on that almost makes the differences meaningless!
Timers, [...]
Options in Sub-classes with Mixins Still Works!
April 27, 2010
When Extending and Implementing classes, you can have options specific to each class and they will all be merged nicely together in the final class. Check it out!
jQuery Conference Slides and Demo
April 24, 2010
Just spoke at jQuery conference, the largest javascript conference to date (as stated by Resig.) It really was a great turnout and I’ve met tons of cool people.
I only had a half an hour, which flew by and is hardly enough time to talk about MooTools Class AND the jQuery mutator. Had several [...]
Targeted CSS and JavaScript for Document States, JavaScript Support, and Internet Explorer’s Versions
April 9, 2010
There are differing opinions on how to support Internet Explorer in all it’s flavors. I’m the type that makes the site look and act the same in every browser as similarly as possible most of the time. I use modernizr to help me know when I can use CSS instead of images or whatever [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]