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Create Custom Pseudo Class Selectors Using the Slick Selector Engine
As I mentioned in my previous post about the Slick selector engine, Create Elements on the Fly with MooTools 1.3 and Slick, Slick is extremely flexible. Part of that flexibility is the ability for you to define custom pseudo class selectors to better gather...
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Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript
I'm what you would consider a bit of a GitHub fanboy. We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code, but I think my love of GitHub goes beyond that. GitHub seems to understand that most...
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Create Elements on the Fly with MooTools 1.3 and Slick
As we were so excited to announce last week, MooTools 1.3 beta has been released. MooTools 1.3 marks the introduction of Slick, an ultra flexible, ultra powerful selector engine created by Thomas Aylott, Fabio Costa, and
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Using Dotter for Form Submissions
One of the plugins I'm most proud of is Dotter. Dotter allows you to create the typical "Loading..." text without using animated images. I'm often asked what a sample usage of Dotter would be; form submission create the perfect situation. The following...
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Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo
I've been dabbling with Dojo quite a bit lately. I feel great about my MooTools and jQuery skills but I'm a bit still raw when it comes to Dojo. What's important that I keep in mind, however, is that the tasks I'm trying to...
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![Create a Trailing Mouse Cursor Effect Using MooTools]()
Create a Trailing Mouse Cursor Effect Using MooTools
Remember the old days of DHTML and effects that were an achievement to create but had absolutely no value? Well, a trailing mouse cursor script is sorta like that. And I'm sorta the type of guy that creates effects just because I can.
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Automatically Generate a Photo Gallery from a Directory of Images: Updated
Two years ago Chris Coyier wrote an outstanding tutorial detailing how you can generate a photo gallery based on the images within two directories: a thumbnails directory and an originals directory. I've decided to take his tutorial a step further by...
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Prototype’s Element.on with MooTools
Prototype 1.7RC1 was released on Monday. While the big news with this release appears to be the implementation of John Resig's Sizzle selector engine, what caught my eye was the new on method. This new Element.on method is very similar to Prototype's...
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Smooth Scrolling with MooTools Fx.SmoothScroll
I get quite a few support requests for my previous MooTools SmoothScroll article and the issue usually boils down to the fact that SmoothScroll has become Fx.SmoothScroll. Here's a simple usage of Fx.SmoothScroll. The HTML The only HTML requirement for Fx.SmoothScroll is that all named...
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MooTools Zoomer Plugin
I love to look around the MooTools Forge. As someone that creates lots of plugins, I get a lot of joy out of seeing what other developers are creating and possibly even how I could improve them. One great plugin I've found is...
