Category Archives: JavaScript

Differences between jQuery and MooTools

Posted on August 5, 2010 by lehresman

Over the past few years I’ve come to love the MooTools JavaScript framework.  It’s an excellent enhancement to JavaScript that helps insulate from browser inconsistencies and provides nice functionality that doesn’t exist natively in JavaScript.   But as I look around, … Continue reading →

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Creating a JavaScript application with MooTools

Posted on February 5, 2010 by lehresman

MooTools makes dynamic DOM manipulation simple. It provides some object oriented wrappers around browser functionality, and ensures cross-browser compatibility with all modern browsers (and even IE6). Lately, I’ve been using MooTools with a couple web applications that are completely rendered … Continue reading →

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JavaScript performance

Posted on January 12, 2010 by lehresman

There is an exciting trend in the browser market today. A war is being fought over JavaScript performance. The browsers each seem to be trying to outdo each other with optimizing their JavaScript engines. Firefox has drastically improved their engine … Continue reading →

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MooZoom extension for MooTools

Posted on January 8, 2010 by lehresman

Apple.com at one point had a nifty effect on their website that would zoom a thumbnail image to a full image. Many people have created JavaScript solutions to imitate this feature. The problem with existing solutions (see FancyZoom and ReMooz) is that … Continue reading →

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StaticScroller MooTools extension

Posted on December 11, 2009 by lehresman

Often times if a page scrolls too far down, the user can lose sight of navigation elements or the shopping cart which may be located on the sidebar. Sure, you could affix the sidebar using “position:fixed” but we all know … Continue reading →

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