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![LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools]()
LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools
One of the web components I've always loved has been Facebook's modal dialog. This "lightbox" isn't like others: no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn't try to do "too much." With Facebook's dialog in mind, I've created LightFace: a Facebook lightbox...
![5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed]()
5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed
When you say or read "HTML5", you half expect exotic dancers and unicorns to walk into the room to the tune of "I'm Sexy and I Know It." Can you blame us though? We watched the fundamental APIs stagnate for so long that a basic feature...
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![Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips]()
Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips
The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below: The amount of jQuery required to duplicate this effect is next to nothing; in fact, there's more CSS than there is jQuery code! Let's explore how we can duplicate jQuery's tooltip effect. The HTML The overall...
![New York Times-Style Text Selection Widget Using MooTools or jQuery]()
New York Times-Style Text Selection Widget Using MooTools or jQuery
Aaron Newton made a great request to me last week: why not make my MooTools Documentation Bookmarklet function more like the New York Time's text selection widget. NYT's text selection widget listens for text selection and presents the user with a "search" icon...




