Tutorials Page 144

• By David WalshSeptember 28, 2011

  File Uploads and C:\fakepath\

  I was recently working on a project that required providing an AJAX uploading widget to users. I decided to use Dojo's dojox.form.FileInput widget so the "Upload" button would look just like every other button within the web application. Everything worked great until I tested...

• By David WalshSeptember 27, 2011

  Dojo, Dijit, Dropdowns, and _aroundNode

  The Dojo Toolkit's awesome UI framework, Dijit, has loads of awesome widgets to allow developers to quickly create themed, feature-rich web applications. Dijit provides form widgets, layout widgets, dropdown-based widgets, and much more. What's nice about Dijit is that there's so much functionality provided...

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• By David WalshSeptember 26, 2011

  Change Mobile Safari Highlight Color with CSS

  I love the amount of extra customization afforded to us by WebKit. That also makes me love the fact that, for the most part, WebKit Mobile is the choice renderer used by mobile devices. One rarely used style property is -webkit-tap-highlight-color, which allows developers...

• By David WalshSeptember 22, 2011

  Elegant Overflow with CSS Ellipsis

  Overflow with text is always a big issue, especially in a programmatic environment. There's always only so much space but variable content to add into that space. I was recently working on a table for displaying user information and noticed that longer strings were...

• By David WalshSeptember 21, 2011

  Adaptive Images

  The landscape of web continues to change as we get more and more devices that we need to support. One concern when creating websites that should accommodate all screen sizes is image size. The acceptable size for an image is not the same across...

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• By David WalshSeptember 19, 2011

  Introducing MooTools Templated

  One major problem with creating UI components with the MooTools JavaScript framework is that there isn't a great way of allowing customization of template and ease of node creation. As of today, there are two ways of creating: new Element Madness The first way to create UI-driven...

• By David WalshSeptember 18, 2011

  Determining Object Type with MooTools’ typeOf

  One thing about JavaScript I dislike is the vagueness of what the typeof operator returns. Pass typeof an array? You get "object" back (which it is, but a more concise answer would be helpful). Pass typeof a Date object? You get "object"...

• By David WalshSeptember 15, 2011

  JavaScript Coding with Class

  I've spent the last two weeks in London, eating fish'n'chips, drinking cup'o'tea, and being a hooligan at the Arsenal. Oh yeah, there was a MooTools hackathon too. The MooTools hackathon was hugely successful and I'll be providing more detail about what was...

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• 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 David WalshAugust 24, 2011

  Create and Retrieve Nested Objects with MooTools

  One argument that's been lodged by many is that MooTools doesn't encourage the use of namespaces for classes.  The Dojo Toolkit does employ namespaces and provides two helpful functions for working with them:  dojo.getObject and dojo.setObject.  These methods allow for setting and getting of nested objects...