Weekend Links – MooTools, jQuery, CSS Animations, Firefox 3, Phing, JavaScript Super Mario Kart

By David Walsh on May 24, 2008

How To Create A ‘MooTools Homepage' Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery

MooTools' website's subnavigation effect is pretty popular and easy to implement in Moo JavaScript. NetTuts shows you how to do it using jQuery.

You know those Safari-only effects created by Webkit? Well, now you can emulate those easily with this Moo script.

This jQuery date range picker is a piece of art. Not only a mini calendar, but some unique options. Hook this up.

Firefox 3 is out-of-control fast. I couldn't be more happy with release candidate 1.

My favorite part of putting together a java project is using Apache Ant. Phing is the PHP flavor of Ant and I hope to try this out soon.

I really need to figure out this <canvas> tag. People are doing some sweet programming with it. This time, we get Mario Kart!

By David WalshMarch 11, 2013
An Interview with Eric Meyer
Your early CSS books were instrumental in pushing my love for front end technologies. What was it about CSS that you fell in love with and drove you to write about it? At first blush, it was the simplicity of it as compared to the table-and-spacer...
By David WalshSeptember 3, 2014
Create a CSS Flipping Animation
CSS animations are a lot of fun; the beauty of them is that through many simple properties, you can create anything from an elegant fade in to a WTF-Pixar-would-be-proud effect. One CSS effect somewhere in between is the CSS flip effect, whereby there's...

By David WalshFebruary 16, 2012
Use Elements as Background Images with -moz-element
We all know that each browser vendor takes the liberty of implementing their own CSS and JavaScript features, and I'm thankful for that. Mozilla and WebKit have come out with some interesting proprietary CSS properties, and since we all know that cementing standards...
By David WalshJanuary 26, 2010
jQuery UI DatePicker: Disable Specified Days
One project I'm currently working on requires jQuery. The project also features a datepicker for requesting a visit to their location. jQuery UI's DatePicker plugin was the natural choice and it does a really nice job. One challenge I encountered was the...

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I only love the css animations with mootools !
I don’t like Jquery :S
Iulian
The Interactive Date Range Picker is impressive!
I used to be a mootools fan myself but now i’m migrating to jquery. There are tons of useful plugins and they’re all gathered on jquery’s homepage, so you don’t need to run for them allover the www. :)