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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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    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...

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    MooTools 1.3 Browser Object

    MooTools 1.3 was just released and one of the big additions is the Browser object.  The Browser object is very helpful in that not only do you get information about browser type and browser versions, you can gain information about the user's OS, browser plugins, and...

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    Mobile Touch Events in MooTools 1.3

    The release of MooTools 1.3 brings about a vast array of new functionality to the JavaScript framework.  One big new addition to MooTools Core is the ability to detect mobile events:  touchstart, touchmove, touchend, touchcancel, gesturestart, gesturechange, gestureend, and orientationchange.  Let me show you...

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    MooTools 1.3 Has Arrived!

    After a year of hard work, listening to the MooTools community's needs, and some more hard work, the MooTools team is proud to release MooTools 1.3!  Below is a summary of what's awesome in MooTools at the moment. Core 1.3 MooTools Core 1.3 is everything you...

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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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    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...