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    Generate Dojo GFX Drawings from SVG Files

    One of the most awesome parts of the Dojo / Dijit / DojoX family is the amazing GFX library.  GFX lives within the dojox.gfx namespace and provides the foundation of Dojo's charting, drawing, and sketch libraries.  GFX allows you to create vector graphics (SVG, VML...

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    MooTools Plugins Updates: LazyLoad, LightFace, ScrollSpy, and More!

    What a busy month it's been!  I've spent a good amount of time prepping my Facebook Lightbox clone, LightFace, and working to expand my Dojo Toolkit knowledge.  I thought I'd take a few moments to catch you up on a few of my plugins and...

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    Simple Apache Proxying

    I was recently working with Apache and a service running on Kris Zyp's Persevere project (which is beyond awesome).  Persevere was pushing messages to my application which was running on Apache; the problem was that Persevere and Apache were running on different ports which technically...

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    Implement setFocus() on Elements with MooTools

    Every DOM node provides a focus method but most nodes have a tabIndex of -1 which prevents the element from being focused on when clicked, tabbed, focused via JavaScript.  I've been tinkering around with ways to make focusing on any element effortless with varying results.  I...

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    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...

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    Super-Powered Pseudos with MooTools’ Element.Event.Pseudo

    The MooTools Team and its contributors are always looking for more efficient, creative ways to accomplish common tasks.  Not only is accomplishing the task with an efficient amount of code good enough, but doing so while keeping the code legible and functionality reliable.  I'm confident that...

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    Supporting the onMessage Event in MooTools

    Yesterday I threw some window.postMessage knowledge right in your face.  The cross frame/window/domain technology that is window.postMessage is really interesting and as IE6 and IE7 fade away, window.postMessage will gain more momentum.  In looking to listen to onMessage events with MooTools, I noticed that message...

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    HTML5’s window.postMessage API

    One of the little known HTML5 APIs is the window.postMessage API.  window.postMessage allows for sending data messages between two windows/frames across domains.  Essentially window.postMessage acts as cross-domain AJAX without the server shims. Let's take a look at how window.postMessage works and how you...

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    Smack Talk: Calling Myself Out

    So listen, I'm not perfect.  I'm full of ego, I'm a bit stubborn, and some would call me opinionated.  Well guess what?  I've been wrong. I've felt strongly about some web development topics and now, a few years later, I realize that I was dead wrong...

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    Introducing MooTools HeatMap

    It's often interesting to think about where on a given element, whether it be the page, an image, or a static DIV, your users are clicking.  With that curiosity in mind, I've created HeatMap: a MooTools class that allows you to detect, load, save, and...