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Weekend Links – MooTools Calendar, PHP JavaScript Search, Website First Impressions, Dynamic CSS Class, jQuery HeatColor

By David Walsh on December 1, 2007

MooTools Calendar

A really suave MooTools class to place inline, accessible, and unobtrusive calendars intro your page.

http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/calendar/

PHP.net API Search In Firefox Using JavaScript

If you're like me, you visit the PHP.net website daily. This scriptlet is used like a bookmark -- click it, enter the function you're prompted to provide, and you'll go straight to the function's page.

http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/article/164

21 Factors That Influence the First Impression of Your Website's Visitors

A great list of factors that can define your website -- great re-visit value or a one-visit wonder?

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/first-impression/

MooTools Dynamic CSS via JavaScript

Add CSS to your website using a MooTools class. Plenty of examples to help you use the class.

http://revnode.com/oss/css/

Nintendo Relaunches wii Site Dojo, MooTools, SWFObject

Nintendo relaunced the wii website using the Dojo and MooTools frameworks. Very slick UI and impressive functionality.

http://www.nintendo.com/games/guide#qhardware=Wii&qesrbRating=&qplay=&qgenre=&qrelease=&panel=qgenre&sortBy=title

HeatColor -- jQuery Plugin

This jQuery plugin takes the value of selected elements and color-codes the background based on their values.

http://www.jnathanson.com/blog/client/jquery/heatcolor/index.cfm

Recent Features

By David WalshNovember 7, 2012
Camera and Video Control with HTML5
Client-side APIs on mobile and desktop devices are quickly providing the same APIs. Of course our mobile devices got access to some of these APIs first, but those APIs are slowly making their way to the desktop. One of those APIs is the getUserMedia API...
By David WalshFebruary 18, 2013
Create a Sheen Logo Effect with CSS
I was inspired when I first saw Addy Osmani's original ShineTime blog post. The hover sheen effect is simple but awesome. When I started my blog redesign, I really wanted to use a sheen effect with my logo. Using two HTML elements and...

Incredible Demos

By David WalshMarch 2, 2009
jQuery topLink Plugin
Last week I released a snippet of code for MooTools that allowed you to fade in and out a "to the top" link on any page. Here's how to implement that functionality using jQuery. The XHTML A simple link. The CSS A little CSS for position and style. The jQuery...
By David WalshApril 25, 2013
CSS Background Animations
Background animations are an awesome touch when used correctly. In the past, I used MooTools to animate a background position. Luckily these days CSS animations are widely supported enough to rely on them to take over JavaScript-based animation tasks. The following simple CSS snippet animates...

Discussion

Steven Snell
Thanks for the link!
Jens Klose
I’ve added a new project to google code as fork to the MooTools Calendar:

includes the Mootools 1.2 port
includes some bugfixes
new options

project site