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Class

The base Class of the MooTools framework. Official MooTools Documentation

Articles using Class

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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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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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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