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.
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.
MooTools for Beginners Part 5 – Native Extensions
January 14, 2010
In Part 4 we looked at the myriad ways to select elements in the dom. Well, today we are ignoring the dom altogether. Aaron Newton once said that “MooTools aims to make JavaScript your playground [not just the DOM].” MooTools extends a lot of JavaScript natives, like Functions, Strings, Numbers, etc. [...]
Triangles with CSS
January 13, 2010
I just discovered this:
Was goofing around in CSSEdit and saw a triangle on the screen and thought “how on earth?” … Of course, something like this must have been discovered before by others. Sure enough, developer Jon Rohan beat me to it. I still feel cool I stumbled on the trick independently!
And since [...]
MooTools for Beginners Part 4 – Selecting and Manipulating DOM Elements
January 12, 2010
Most of the time the whole point of using mootools is to manipulate an element or collection of elements. (But not always, as you’ll see in Part 5.) Now that you know some basics we’re going to get more in depth by learning the various ways to select dom elements to manipulate them–traversing the dom, [...]
MooTools for Beginners Part 3 – Effects (Fx)
January 9, 2010
Most people’s interest in a javascript framework lies in the animation effects. MooTools has the best. This article will not only show you the various ways to use effects, but will also talk a little about the philosophy of mootools.
Basic AJAX and JSON Requests Using MooTools’ Request.HTML and Request.JSON
January 2, 2010
The best designs aren’t noticed. When you walk through an airport and get exactly where you intend to go, you don’t realize and attribute it to an excellent way-finding design. Such is the case with the web.
Ajax and JSON requests can subtly enhance the usability of a site where the user doesn’t notice the site “thinking” as much as all the page loads of yesteryear. Try the search on this site to see what I mean. After going through this tutorial you’ll have a solid foundation to use this powerful feature of the web with mootools.
“Favorite” is not a good password retrieval idea
December 30, 2009
When coming up with password retrieval security questions, avoid anything that says “Favorite.” The following are questions presented to me from a bank’s website. I can’t answer any of them the same way twice, and some I can’t answer even in the first place.