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 WalshApril 3, 2013
CSS @supports
Feature detection via JavaScript is a client side best practice and for all the right reasons, but unfortunately that same functionality hasn't been available within CSS. What we end up doing is repeating the same properties multiple times with each browser prefix. Yuck. Another thing we...
By David WalshNovember 21, 2011
Page Visibility API
One event that's always been lacking within the document is a signal for when the user is looking at a given tab, or another tab. When does the user switch off our site to look at something else? When do they come back?

By David WalshOctober 6, 2008
MooTools Link Fading
We all know that we can set a different link color (among other properties) on the hover event, but why not show a little bit more dynamism by making the original color fade to the next? Using MooTools 1.2, you can achieve that effect. The MooTools...
By David WalshFebruary 23, 2011
RealTime Stock Quotes with MooTools Request.Stocks and YQL
It goes without saying but MooTools' inheritance pattern allows for creation of small, simple classes that possess immense power. One example of that power is a class that inherits from Request, Request.JSON, and Request.JSONP: Request.Stocks. Created by Enrique Erne, this great MooTools class acts as...

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. :)