I've just released my third NetTuts post: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/sexy-animated-tabs-using-mootools/ . From the post:
One modern, attractive way of placing a lot of content into a little space is by using a tab system. This tutorial will show you how to create a sexy, animated tab system complete with CSS sprites, cookies, and animated tab swapping.
Go over to NetTuts and check it out!
I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.
For maximum performance, we all know we must put our assets on CDN (another domain). Along with those assets are custom web fonts. Unfortunately custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) don't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though...
Overlays have become a big part of modern websites; we can probably attribute that to the numerous lightboxes that use them. I've found a ton of overlay code snippets out there but none of them satisfy my taste in code. Many of them are...
One thing I love doing is duplicating OS functionalities. One of the things your OS allows you to do easily is move from one item to another. Most of the time you're simply trying to get to the next or the previous item.
Great tutorial, I know you are a moo tools guru, but it would be a cool do a j-query version of this maybe… at somepoint (fingers crossed).
Nice one David, great tutorial. really great!
Hey David, sleek simple little effect :)
What I noticed though, is when I switch off javascript it does still work however it is really slow. From click to action about 4-5 sec.
I used Firefox 3.5.7 and switched javascript off in the browser itself, not the webdeveloper toolbar or something similar.
Greets
Hi David!
Could you help me with this script?
I need the possibility to “open/close” the tabs – and that all tabs are closed at the beginning when the Site loads…
Please!!! I really need help with this!!!
Thank you!!