Aaron Newton brings back $E for MooTools 1.2.1
In Aaron Newton’s announcement of his beta plugins, he’s brought the $E function back, and then some. $E, a function for returning the first element from a selector in MooTools 1.*, was removed from the beta and final release of MooTools 1.2.1.
MooTools.Floor Does Form Validation Right!
We’ve all dealt with form validation one way or another and I didn’t find one to my liking. I was mulling over the idea of writing my own for a while and then I read Ajaxian’s blog today about a really awesome MooTools form validation class from MooTools.Floor. MooTools.Floor actually announced their FormCheck v1.4 form [...]
Moo-Comet aka MooTools Request.Comet
Ever heard of Comet? I heard it long ago when it just started out in Ajaxian’s post. They described it best: Alex Russell has coined a term for a flavour of Ajax that’s been getting more attention of late. Comet describes applications where the server keeps pushing – or streaming – data to the client, [...]
MooTools Delete Key
David Walsh has kept us informed in his post about the delete key event. To detect the delete key, this does not work because ‘delete’ is a reserved word in javascript: 1 var isdel = Event.Keys.delete; So here is the proper way: 1 var isdel = Event.Keys[’delete’]; He put it best: As flexible as Moo’s [...]
MooTools 1.2.1 hits the web!
If you haven’t found out already, MooTools 1.2.1 is now available. The MooTools dev team has stated that it won’t break any of your MooTools 1.2 code! It’s also working with Safari 2 again. Congratulations to the team for a job well done! You can check out the changelog for a list of changes. Go [...]
Bezier Class in MooTools
Iván Paz (correct me if I’m wrong, not sure that is the correct surname) has put together a really awesome MooTools class that extends Fx.Morph with bezier calculations used in translations. You can check out his site here: Ivanicus’ Code Box He’s got an example set up too! But beware, it’s currently a work-in-progress, as [...]
Form property set/get error with MooTools in Internet Explorer
When I was working on TV.com‘s redesign, I found an error when setting or getting a form element’s properties in IE. The other browsers was able to set or get the property just fine. So I’m going to share my solution with you today. I’ll go over the methods MooTools has first so you know [...]
Inspired by Aaron Newton’s “Programming to the Pattern”
Aaron Newton is a contrbutor to MooTools and the care-taker of Clientside, CNET.com’s developer blog. He recently wrote about being inspired to write code differently and a more indepth post about his thoughts on (take a deep breath if you’re verbally reading this) “jQuery, MooTools, the Ajax Experience, Programming to the Pattern, and What Really [...]
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