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

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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.

http://nettuts.com/html-css-techniques/how-to-create-a-mootools-homepage-inspired-navigation-effect-using-jquery/

CSS Animations via MooTools

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

http://ajaxian.com/archives/css-animations-via-mootools

jQuery Interactive Date Range Picker with Shortcuts

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

http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery_interactive_date_range_picker_with_shortcuts/

Firefox 3 On Track To Be The Speediest Browser

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

http://lifehacker.com/391547/firefox-3-on-track-to-be-speediest-browser

Phing - PHP Project Build System

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.

http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/phing-php-project-build-system-based-on-apache-ant/

Javascript Super Mario Kart

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

http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/javascript-super-mario-kart.html

Recent Features

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    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...

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    Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer

    Regardless of your stance on pornography, it would be impossible to deny the massive impact the adult website industry has had on pushing the web forward. From pushing the browser's video limits to pushing ads through WebSocket so ad blockers don't detect them, you have...

Incredible Demos

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    Font Replacement Using Cufón

    We all know about the big font replacement methods. sIFR's big. Image font replacement has gained some steam. Not too many people know about a great project named Cufón though. Cufón uses a unique blend of a proprietary font generator tool...

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    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...

Discussion

  1. I only love the css animations with mootools !
    I don’t like Jquery :S

  2. 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. :)

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