Weekend Links – Google Maps API, HeatMap API, googleDrive, MooTools Forms, jQuery Sparklines, Firebug

By David Walsh on July 19, 2008

Density Map Tutorial -- Prototype, Google Maps API, and the HeatMap API

HeatMap allows you to create heat maps on top of Google Analytics. A very impressive script that requires little code from the developer.

googleDrive is a script written by PhatFusion. Why drag the Google Map when you can just drive around it? Grand Theft Google!

Web forms can be bland and boring but they don't have to be! Here's a list of MooTools scripts that will make your forms pop!

Sparklines is a mini chart-building script built with jQuery. The charts aren't anything too special but they're simple and effective.

John Resig as joined the Firebug team at Firefox! Glorious!

By David WalshApril 3, 2013
CSS @supports
Feature detection via JavaScript is a client side best practice and for all the right reasons, but unfortunately that same functionality hasn't been available within CSS. What we end up doing is repeating the same properties multiple times with each browser prefix. Yuck. Another thing we...
By David WalshJuly 28, 2011
Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx
I recently posted an awesome (if I may say so myself) CSS3 / MooTools tutorials called Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools. The post presented two ways, a pure CSS method or MooTools-powered class, to duplicate Google+'s elegant photo stack...

By David WalshJanuary 6, 2010
Create a Simple Slideshow Using MooTools, Part III: Creating a Class
In my previous two slideshow posts, Create a Simple Slideshow Using MooTools and Create a Simple Slideshow Using MooTools, Part II: Controls and Events, I showed you how to create a slideshow using...
By David WalshJune 2, 2014
Display Images as Grayscale with CSS Filters
CSS filters aren't yet widely supported but they are indeed impressive and a modern need for web imagery. CSS filters allow you to modify the display of images in a variety of ways, one of those ways being displaying images as grayscale. Doing so requires the...