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Book Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide
In the interest in full disclosure, I was sent this book by Packt Publishing in hopes that I would review it. I’m reviewing this book, however, in the interest of my audience.
Unless you live under a rock or simply check my site for Christina Ricci pics every morning, you know I’m a bit of a MooTools fanboy. I spend hours every day writing MooTools tutorials, getting in touch with the MooTools community and development team members, and oh yeah…coding a bit too. When it was brought to my attention that Jacob Gube and Garrick Cheung had written a MooTools book for beginners, I was really excited to check it out. The following are my thoughts on their book.
Create Twitter-Style Dropdowns Using MooTools
Twitter does some great stuff with javascript. What I really appreciate about what they do is that there aren’t any epic JS functionalities — they’re all simple touches. One of those simple touches is the “Login” dropdown on their homepage. I’ve taken some time to duplicate that functionality with MooTools.
Introducing MooTools NextPrev
One thing I love doing is duplicating OS functionalities. One of the things your OS allows you to do easily is move from one item to another. Most of the time you’re simply trying to get to the next or the previous item. MooTools NextPrev is a compact javascript class that allows you to move about a collection of items quickly using human terms.
Create a Simple News Scroller Using Dojo
My journey into Dojo javascript has been exciting and I’m continuing to learn more as I port MooTools scripts to Dojo. My latest experiment is porting a simple new scroller from MooTools to Dojo. The code is very similar!
The HTML
The news items are placed into list items. The UL will be the element that’s animated.
“MooTools as a General Purpose Application Framework” by Christoph Pojer
I wanted to bring attention to an outstanding presentation given by MooTools Core Developer Christoph Pojer. Given at FOSDEM 2010, Christoph provides an overview of what MooTools is, who should use it, how it should be used. Examples are given throughout the presentation.
I highly recommend MooTools users of all experience levels watch this video, as well as jQuery or Dojo users looking to simply understand what this framework is about.