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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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