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 WalshAugust 29, 2011
Create Namespaced Classes with MooTools
MooTools has always gotten a bit of grief for not inherently using and standardizing namespaced-based JavaScript classes like the Dojo Toolkit does. Many developers create their classes as globals which is generally frowned up. I mostly disagree with that stance, but each to their own. In any event...
By Soledad PenadésJuly 22, 2014
From Webcam to Animated GIF: the Secret Behind chat.meatspac.es!
My team mate Edna Piranha is not only an awesome hacker; she's also a fantastic philosopher! Communication and online interactions is a subject that has kept her mind busy for a long time, and it has also resulted in a bunch of interesting experimental projects...

By David WalshMarch 30, 2009
MooTools Flashlight Effect
Another reason that I love Twitter so much is that I'm able to check out what fellow developers think is interesting. Chris Coyier posted about a flashlight effect he found built with jQuery. While I agree with Chris that it's a little corny, it...
By David WalshJune 13, 2011
Create Your Own Dijit CSS Theme with LESS CSS
The Dojo Toolkit seems to just get better and better. One of the new additions in Dojo 1.6 was the use of LESS CSS to create Dijit themes. The move to using LESS is a brilliant one because it makes creating your own Dijit theme...

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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. :)