Following MooTools on Twitter

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A while back I posted links to various official and unofficial websites that would keep you up to date on the MooTools project. Here are a bunch of Twitter-related links that will get you even closer to the project.

MooTools Devs & Contributors

Automated Accounts

Many of the accounts above are tweeted to often so if you follow MooTools you should follow the developers above.

Recent Features

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    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...

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    Serving Fonts from CDN

    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...

Incredible Demos

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    MooTools Image Preloading with Progress Bar

    The idea of image preloading has been around since the dawn of the internet. When we didn't have all the fancy stuff we use now, we were forced to use ugly mouseover images to show dynamism. I don't think you were declared an official...

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    Table Cell and Position Absolute

    If you follow me on Twitter, you saw me rage about trying to make position: absolute work within a TD element or display: table-cell element.  Chrome?  Check.  Internet Explorer?  Check.  Firefox?  Ugh, FML.  I tinkered in the console...and cussed.  I did some researched...and I...

Discussion

  1. Thanks for share!

  2. Oh, that’s why so many people started following me today.

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