Over on the Mootools forum digitarald (a contributor to Mootools) has posted date.js, a date parsing script that converts just about any date a user could imagine entering into a field into an actual date. I'm probably going to add this to our /mootools.extensions/Native folder and integrate it in with our own date.picker.js.

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JavaScript:
var date1 = date2 = new Date() = "Fri Jun 08 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200"
date1.increment('day', 2) = " Sun Jun 10 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
date2.decrement('hour', 12) = " Fri Jun 08 2007 02:42:57 GMT+0200 "
date1.diff(date2, 'hour') = " 60 "
date1.getOrdinal() = " st "
date1.getDayOfYear() = " 161 "
date1.lastDayofMonth() = " 30 "
date1.getWeek() = " 24 "
date1.getTimezone() = " GMT "
date1.getGMTOffset() = " +0200 "
date1.format('db') = " 2007-06-10 14:42:57 "
date1.format('iso8601') = " 2007-06-10T14:42:57+0200 "
date1.format('rfc822') = " Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:42:57 GMT "
date1.format('short') = " 10 Jun 14:42 "
date1.format('long') = " June 10, 2007 14:42 "
date1.format various strftime = " a = Sun ; A = Sunday ; b = Jun ; B = June ; c = Sun Jun 10 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 ; d = 10 ; H = 14 ; I = 02 ; j = 161 ; m = 06 ; M = 42 ; p = PM ; S = 57 ; U = 24 ; w = 0 ; x = 06/10/2007 ; X = 02:42PM ; y = 07 ; Y = 2007 ; T = +0200 ; Z = GMT "
Date.daysInMonth(2, 2006) = " 31 "
Date.isLeapYear(2006) = " false "
Date.parse('10/12/1982') = " Tue Oct 12 1982 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('2007-06-08 16:34:52') = " Fri Jun 08 2007 18:34:52 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('2007-06-08T16:34:52+0200') = " Fri Jun 08 2007 16:34:52 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('today') = " Fri Jun 08 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('tomorrow') = " Sat Jun 09 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('yesterday') = " Thu Jun 07 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('next monday') = " Mon Jun 11 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('1st') = " Fri Jun 01 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('14th October') = " Sun Oct 14 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('24th May, 2007') = " Thu May 24 2007 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "
Date.parse('May 3rd 2006') = " Wed May 03 2006 14:42:57 GMT+0200 "

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History Manager

Here's another digitarald script that I'm eyeing with a bit of interest, a state manager for ajax environments. From his site:

“Ajax History”, “Back-Button”, “Ajax Bookmarks”, call it however you like. This is an unobtrusive MooTools plugin to allow history handling for multiple modules, try it out. It can handle back/forward history actions and bookmarks with the location hash.

Features

  • Allow users to bookmark your ajaxified application in the current state
  • Forward/Backward history browsing for your Accordion and every other
  • Save states of One-Page-Applications over sessions
  • Change easily default options and customize the behaviour with Events

New Mootools Blog

The Mootools site now has a nifty blog and it's got some great stuff on it already. First up is a quick set of reference links to everything you need to learn javascript. Many of these things are stuff I've linked to in my side-bar or in various posts, but it's a nice collection for sure.

SlickSpeed

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Google Gears

If you've followed ajaxian in the last two weeks no doubt you've seen this already, but Google launched Google Gears a week or two ago. In their words:

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using the following JavaScript APIs:

  • Store and serve application resources locally
  • Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
  • Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

    Sounds promising. Here's a nice little write up from Uriel Katz.

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    Was glancing through the demos at http://demos.mootools.net and stumbled on to Fx.Morph, a short little Fx class that transitions an element's properties from one css class to another. I wrote something like this a few months ago but ultimately decided I didn't really need it but now I'm giving it a second thought.