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Drag. Drop. Lock.
I've received dozens of emails about my Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using MooTools article. The MooTools in my article contained a lot of conditional code to require correct dropping per the game and many people requested that I simplify the process and just...
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Implementing Basic and Fancy Show/Hide in MooTools 1.2
One of the great parts of MooTools is that the library itself allows for maximum flexibility within its provided classes. You can see evidence of this in the "Class" class' implement method. Using the implement method, you can add your own methods to...
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Weekend Links – MooTools Fancy Upload, 60 Second Tech, jSize, CSS Pull Quotes, PHP First Language
MooTools Fancy Upload Moo developer Harald Kirschner gave Fancy Upload a face-lift for MooTools 1.2. If you haven't seen Fancy Upload before, please check this out! http://digitarald.de/project/fancyupload/ Sixty Second Tech I met Cal Evans through my time as a PHP Zone Leader. He's a really...
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Basic File Uploading Using PHP
I create a lot of websites that allow administrators to upload files to their own website. Since allowing user customization has become more and more important on websites these days, I thought I'd share how easy it is to handle file uploads in PHP. The XHTML...
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Weather Switcher 1.000001
A while back, CSS-Tricks Tsar Chris Coyier and I created a Weather Switcher script that connected to Yahoo!'s weather API, downloaded an XML file containing weather information for a specified zip code, and modified the website's theme based on the weather. Yahoo! recently made an update...
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Using Form Input Arrays For Checkboxes
One way that I've gotten faster at XHTML forms is using input arrays whenever possible. Input arrays allow me to deal with just one variable for checkboxes that serve as multiple answers to one question. Here's how the process works. Step 1: The XHTML Form Note...
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Save Text Size Preference Using MooTools 1.2
Last time posting here I taught you how to change text-size with JavaScript. The problem with using the solution I presented as Ian Lloyd pointed out: Increase the font size, follow a link to another web page on same site and … back...
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MooTools onLoad SmoothScrolling
SmoothScroll is a fantastic MooTools plugin but smooth scrolling only occurs when the anchor is on the same page. Making SmoothScroll work across pages is as easy as a few extra line of MooTools and a querystring variable. The MooTools / PHP Of course, this is a...
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CSS Variables Using PHP
CSS is an amazing formatting tool but it has one glaring omission: variables. In My CSS Wishlist, I proposed a PHP-like syntax for CSS variables. Using PHP, I've made the idea of easy, dynamic CSS a reality. The Sample CSS The above is a sample css file that...
![Weekend Links – CSS Developer Confessions, CSS Link Techniques, OnMissingImage, Javscript Versions, MK vs. DC]()
Weekend Links – CSS Developer Confessions, CSS Link Techniques, OnMissingImage, Javscript Versions, MK vs. DC
Confessions of a CSS Developer I agree with most of Reinhold Weber's article. His confessions are very "real-world-trying-to-get-paid." http://reinholdweber.com/?p=26 4 Uber Cool CSS Techniques For Links CSSGlobe drops some linking knowledge. The article provides detailed CSS code for each technique. http://cssglobe.com/post/1614/4-uber-cool-css-techniques-for-links HTML OnMissingImage I had...
