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    Troubleshooting CSS Style Assignments within Dojo

    I was recently working on a Dojo project which used a series of JavaScript calculations to generate CSS style values. While calculating styles with JavaScript is quite common, especially when attempting to dynamically position HTML nodes, values aren't always cleansed the way that they should...

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    Load MooTools Classes on Demand with RequireJS

    RequireJS is a hugely popular JavaScript project right now thanks to what it does:  asynchronously load JavaScript files and properly handle their introduction to a namespace flawlessly.  Of course, callbacks are provided which allow you to work with the new code one it has been loaded.

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    JavaScript Events:  Save the Bubbles!

    The more we work with advanced, accessible, and crawlable web applications, the more control we need over element events.  Mouseenter/leave events, keypress events, and the classic click event are probably the most-listened to events.  Unfortunately many people, including myself, have been incorrectly handling event stoppage.  In...

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    Fade Images with MooTools LazyLoad

    I recently received an email from a MooTools developer asking a great question about my LazyLoad class: "I'm using your LazyLoad MooTools plugin (which is great, by the way). I have been trying to figure out how to modify it so that once an image scrolls into...

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    String Regular Expressions with MooTools

    Whether you like given JavaScript library or not , there are always snippets you can take from the code which accomplish a task you may need to address.  We all know that I looooooove MooTools, but maybe you're a Dojo or jQuery developer that doesn't get a...

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    HTML5’s async Script Attribute

    One of the big reasons I'me excited about HMTL5 is that features are being implemented that have been long overdue.  We've been using placeholders forever but we've needed to use JavaScript to do it.  We've been making entire blocks clickable like links but we've needed...

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    Create a Dojo-Powered WordPress Website View

    Yesterday I showed you WordPress' awesome JSON plugin named JSON API.  Now that I can get my blog posts in JSON format, it's time to create an awesome AJAX'ed web app with that data.  I've chosen to use the power of Dojo and Dijit to...

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    WordPress JSON API Plugin

    Ever since I moved to a mostly-JavaScript job, I've become more and more enamored with the simplicity and usefulness of JSON.  Now I want everything available in JSON format, and when I encounter a service which doesn't provide a JSON API, I have a...

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    HTML5’s “email” and “url” Input Types

    I've already covered some subtle HTML5 improvements like placeholder, prefetching, and web storage.  Today I want to introduce a few new INPUT element types:  email and url.  Let's take a very basic look at these new INPUT types and discuss their advantages. The Syntax The...

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    Shaving Bytes with MooTools

    With mobile web technology continuing to gain momentum, one of the major concerns facing JavaScript frameworks developers is file size.  Most of the frameworks, most notably MooTools and Dojo, are extremely modular and allow you to add functionality as needed.  Be that as it may, there...