Tutorials Page 145

• By David WalshAugust 17, 2011

  Custom AJAX Content Handling with the Dojo Toolkit

  If you were to ask me for the top five words that should describe any JavaScript framework, one of them would be flexible.  The Dojo Toolkit is ultra-flexible in just about every way, using customizable classes and dojo-namespaced objects to to allow for maximal flexibility.  One...

• By David WalshAugust 15, 2011

  Send Text Messages with PHP

  Kids these days, I tell ya.  All they care about is the technology.  The video games.  The bottled water.  Oh, and the texting, always the texting.  Back in my day, all we had was...OK, I had all of these things too.  But I still don't get...

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• By David WalshAugust 11, 2011

  dat.gui: Exceptional JavaScript Interface Controller

  We all love trusted JavaScript frameworks like MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo, but there's a big push toward using focused micro-frameworks for smaller purposes. Of course, there are positives and negatives to using them.  Positives include smaller JS footprint (especially good for mobile) and less cruft, negatives...

• By David WalshAugust 10, 2011

  Drag and Drop MooTools File Uploads

  Honesty hour confession:  file uploading within the web browser sucks.  It just does.  Like the ugly SELECT element, the file input is almost unstylable and looks different on different platforms.  Add to those criticism the fact that we're all used to drag and drop operations...

• By David WalshAugust 8, 2011

  jQuery Chosen Plugin

  Without a doubt, my least favorite form element is the SELECT element.  The element is almost unstylable, looks different across platforms, has had inconsistent value access, and disaster that is the result of multiple=true is, well, a disaster.  Needless to say, whenever a developer goes...

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• By David WalshAugust 4, 2011

  MooTools Wall Plugin

  One of the more impressive MooTools plugins to hit the Forge recently was The Wall by Marco Dell'Anna.  The Wall creates an endless grid of elements which can be grabbed and dragged, fading in elements as they are encountered.  Let me show...

• By David WalshAugust 3, 2011

  Full Awesomeness with dojo.partial and MooTools’ Function.partial

  Much like MooTools, the Dojo Toolkit features a host of JavaScript language helpers.  One of those helpers is dojo.partial.  This method, which lives in Dojo Base, allows you to call a method with additional arguments appended to the front of a function signature.  Sound a bit...

• By David WalshJuly 28, 2011

  Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx

  I recently posted an awesome (if I may say so myself) CSS3 / MooTools tutorials called Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools.  The post presented two ways, a pure CSS method or MooTools-powered class, to duplicate Google+'s elegant photo stack...

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• By David WalshJuly 27, 2011

  Remove Input Shadows on iPad

  I was recently tasked with testing an existing web application on the iPad.  I was fairly certain the app would work without issues, but my larger concern was styling.  One undesirable style I found was that all text INPUT elements had a hideous top shadow effect.

• By David WalshJuly 20, 2011

  Instagram For MooTools

  If you're still rocking an iPhone and fancy taking a photo every now and then, you'd be crazy not to be using an app called Instagram.  With Instagram you take the photos just as you would with your native iPhone camera app, but Instagram...