MooTools Tutorials

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    Fx.Rotate:  Animated Element Rotation with MooTools

    I was recently perusing the MooTools Forge and I saw a neat little plugin that allows for static element rotation: Fx.Rotate. Fx.Rotate is an extension of MooTools' native Fx class and rotates the element via CSS within each A-grade browser it...

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    An Interview with jsFiddle Creator Piotr Zalewa

    One of the great code sharing tools was pastebin. It was simple and straight-forward but quickly grew out of its usefulness. That's where jsFiddle comes in. jsFiddle is a fresh tool that not only displays the code and highlights it but also executes...

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    MooTools Plugin: Event.Mock

    Those of you who visit this blog often know that I have a certain love for the simple things: simple CSS enhancements, simple PHP scripts, and most importantly, simple JavaScript plugins. One plugin that recently caught my attention was Arieh Glazer Event.Mock plugin.

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    Create a Twitter AJAX Button with MooTools, jQuery, or Dojo

    There's nothing like a subtle, slick website widget that effectively uses CSS and JavaScript to enhance the user experience.  Of course widgets like that take many hours to perfect, but it doesn't take long for that effort to be rewarded with above-average user retention and...

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    Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo III

    My love of the JavaScript frameworks knows no bounds. Unfortunately too many developers stick to one framework without taking the time to learn the others. The more frameworks you know, the better a programmer you will be and the more money you'll make.

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    Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo II

    My love of the JavaScript frameworks knows no bounds.  Unfortunately too many developers stick to one framework without taking the time to learn the others.  The more frameworks you know, the better a programmer you will be and the more money you'll make.  Let me show...

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    7 MooTools Plugins You Should Use on Every Website II

    The advantage of using unobtrusive JavaScript is that you can vastly improve the user experience for website visitors using just a snippet of code. And since the MooTools JavaScript framework's community is known for creating unique, quality plugins, I've compiled a list of plugins you MUST...

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    Implement the Google AJAX Search API

    Let's be honest...WordPress' search functionality isn't great. Let's be more honest...no search functionality is better than Google's. Luckily for us, Google provides an awesome method by which we can use their search for our own site: the Google AJAX Search API.

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    Build HTML Tables From MySQL Tables with PHP

    I was recently completing a project which required that I build a series of HTML tables which would represent all of the tables within a MySQL database.  I didn't have anything created but after a few minutes I had exactly what I needed. Hopefully this helps...

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    ServerSide JavaScript with MooTools and Node.js

    This blog post is intended to provide a starting point for ServerSide JavaScript (SSJS) development with MooTools. It is focused on Node.js (http://nodejs.org) and tries to explain the main concepts and differences from client side development. It is solely based on my current experience...