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 WalshDecember 10, 2012
How to Create a Twitter Card
One of my favorite social APIs was the Open Graph API adopted by Facebook. Adding just a few META tags to each page allowed links to my article to be styled and presented the way I wanted them to, giving me a bit of control...
By David WalshApril 15, 2015
fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it, XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...

By David WalshApril 18, 2011
Create a Clearable TextBox with the Dojo Toolkit
Usability is a key feature when creating user interfaces; it's all in the details. I was recently using my iPhone and it dawned on my how awesome the "x" icon is in its input elements. No holding the delete key down. No pressing it a...
By David WalshMarch 5, 2008
DWRequest: MooTools 1.2 AJAX Listener & Message Display
Though MooTools 1.2 is in its second beta stage, its basic syntax and theory changes have been hashed out. The JavaScript library continues to improve and become more flexible. Fellow DZone Zone Leader Boyan Kostadinov wrote a very useful article detailing how you can add a...

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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. :)