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 WalshMay 18, 2011
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 Explorer 8+, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome...
By Julian ShapiroApril 28, 2014
CSS vs. JS Animation: Which is Faster?
How is it possible that JavaScript-based animation has secretly always been as fast — or faster — than CSS transitions? And, how is it possible that Adobe and Google consistently release media-rich mobile sites that rival the performance of native apps? This article serves as a point-by-point...

By David WalshOctober 2, 2012
Modal-Style Text Selection with Fokus
Every once in a while I find a tiny JavaScript library that does something very specific, very well. My latest find, Fokus, is a utility that listens for text selection within the page, and when such an event occurs, shows a beautiful modal dialog in...
By David WalshAugust 13, 2009
jQuery Comment Preview
I released a MooTools comment preview script yesterday and got numerous requests for a jQuery version. Ask and you shall receive! I'll use the exact same CSS and HTML as yesterday. The XHTML The CSS The jQuery JavaScript On the keypress and blur events, we validate and...

Catar4x
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. :)