So I posted yesterday in my flurry of catch-up posts about the mad4milk.net guys new framework: MooTools. I’ve had a little time to dig into it and I must say that I’m blown away. In many ways, this is the framework that I’d say CNET should write for itself if it were to take on such a task. | Read the rest »
Well crap. 1) I love the mad4milk guys (makers of moo.fx, moo.ajax, moo.dom, prototype.lite). 2) their new framework looks AWESOME. 3) as always, their libraries are SUPER TINY.
But damn, now I have to learn something new, and maybe rewrite a bunch of crap. This is the problem with javascript. Still, when Prototype + Scriptaculous is 100K, you gotta admire their ability to crank something out in under 20K that will get you nearly the same thing.
The Mad4Milk team (the minds that brought the world moo.fx) have unleashed a brand new, very impressive Javascript library out onto the web - MooTools.
mootools is a very compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework. Its unique design makes it extremely crossbrowser, easy to use, and a snap to extend with your own code. It comes with a choice of more than fifteen scripts, plugins and addons, including Effects (moo.fx) Ajax (moo.ajax), Dom Navigator (moo.dom), Drag and Drop, Sortable lists, cookies Manager and many more.
There aren’t any demos of the functionality quite yet (as of the date of this post), but you can download the first release of thise powerful little tool.
You can also check out what Jonathan Snook has to say about it, having already downloaded and worked with it a bit. He’s also created a simple tutorial on using the new library to create a drag-and-drop example.
Continuing in my efforts to make my code stop leaking (fun!), I’ve been working on a popup handler I wrote recently (which I plan to post and share as soon as, you know, it doesn’t leak). | Read the rest »
As part of a recent effort to make the CNET headers a little slimmer and to address some possible conflicts with our code and the javascript that runs from ad developers, I took some time last friday to rewrite Prototype.lite.js - distributed by the mad4milk guys (who make moo.fx). | Read the rest »
Those crazy guys at mad4milk.net have added a bit more to the moo.fx library. Now, in addition to their animation library, prototype-lite, and ajax-lite scripts, they’ve added a 3kb selector library: moo.dom
Check out this post on this crafty lightbox + moo.fx combination.
While Lightbox is really excellent, the sudden transition from page to image is a little bit jolting. I decided that integrating a Javascript effects library (in this case, my preferred option, the super-lightweight Moo.FX) into Lightbox would provide a more gentle transition from page to image and back again.
So what I’m wondering is if we could also use this kind of tech to prompt users for information. The standard popup window is less than beloved by developers and users. We’ve been using overlib for popups but maybe this kind of faded layover would allow us to highlight the importance of the message more effectively.
Today Download.com rolled out our Watch List product. Users can add items to their list (ajax goodness) and, when said items are updated, they’ll get an email. | Read the rest »
Moo.fx, the tiny Ajax library, has a new release. | Read the rest »
Eric’s comments regarding the use of 3rd party libraries and my response got me thinking that I should post a few examples of what we’ve been doing at Download.com. My only caveat is that I’m probably the person most responsible for this policy as I push for functionality that necessitates their use. | Read the rest »
