Dive Into Dojo Series: Dive Into Dojo GFX
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about my latest Dive Into Dojo post: Dive Into Dojo GFX!
It's well known that Dojo's DojoX collection is a treasure trove of enterprise-ready, advanced widgets and JavaScript classes that allow you to accomplish difficult tasks with relative ease. One of DojoX's most powerful features is GFX. Let's dive into what GFX is, how to create feature-rich vector drawings with GFX, and how you can start creating vector graphics with GFX today!
Be sure to check it out!
![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...
![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...
![Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips]()
The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below:
The amount of jQuery required to duplicate this effect is next to nothing; in fact, there's more CSS than there is jQuery code! Let's explore how we can duplicate jQuery's tooltip effect.
The HTML
The overall...
![MooTools Zebra Tables Plugin]()
Tabular data can oftentimes be boring, but it doesn't need to look that way! With a small MooTools class, I can make tabular data extremely easy to read by implementing "zebra" tables -- tables with alternating row background colors.
The CSS
The above CSS is extremely basic.
how to get the coordination of the group? For a shape, i can use shape.x and shape.y, but group.x and group.y is undefine.