This Moo’s For You! MooTools 1.2 Has Arrived!

By David Walsh on June 12, 2008

U2's been singing this week because Monday was a beautiful day. Monday marked the release of MooTools 1.2, a landmark release. CNET's Aaron Newton (and MooTools developer) was so blown away by Valerio and Co's new ideas that he wanted to name this release 2.0 but Valerio chose to keep this version as 1.2. If you'd like details on the new improvements, please visit the MooTools blog.

Even though Moo 1.2 was just officially released, I've been delivering no-bull MooTools 1.2 articles for months now. Download the newest Moo and check out my articles:

Recent Features

Create a CSS Flipping Animation
You've all asked for it and now I've added it: Internet Explorer support! Annoyingly enough, the change involves rotate the front and back elements instead of just the container. Skip to this section if you'd like the...
CSS Gradients
With CSS border-radius, I showed you how CSS can bridge the gap between design and development by adding rounded corners to elements. CSS gradients are another step in that direction. Now that CSS gradients are supported in Internet...
Vibration API
Many of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user. One of those simple APIs the Vibration API. The Vibration API allows developers to direct the...

Incredible Demos

Create WordPress Page Templates with Custom Queries
One of my main goals with the redesign was to make it easier for visitors to find the information that was most popular on my site. Not to my surprise, posts about MooTools, jQuery, and CSS were at the...
Instagram For MooTools
If you're still rocking an iPhone and fancy taking a photo every now and then, you'd be crazy not to be using an app called Instagram. With Instagram you take the photos just as you would with your...
Form Element AJAX Spinner Attachment Using MooTools
Many times you'll see a form dynamically change available values based on the value of a form field. For example, a "State" field will change based on which Country a user selects. What annoys me about these forms...

Discussion

Will
Well, since I’ve started reading your articles, I’ve seen countless mentions of MooTools, yet I’ve been in the dark; time to change this.

Do you have anything you’d recommend to start me off?
david
@Will: You should have mentioned this earlier! The more Moo, the better!

I suggest starting with “Using MooTools For Opacity”. It covers some basic Moo usage. From there, move on to “Basic Ajax Requests Using MooTools 1.2″. Be sure to have the MooTools documentation open in another window.

Moo is a lot of fun — go for it!
deef
MooTools is great! It’s my only choice at this moment. And it has great documentation.
You can very easily extend it using your own classes and the framework itself is fully modular.

It changed my life as a web-developper, I am very curious about its future.