Don’t you just love how different browsers style (or rather, don’t style) select and option elements? One of the things I dread most as a developer is when the design team come in and produce forms with controls that are totally bespoke and unobtainable due to the browser limitations. This prompted me to write a mootools class that replaces the… Read more →
This time I found a fun javascript test on StackOverflow on the PerfectionKills blog: Javascript Quiz, once again it has been suggested to use through the interview process for a javascript / front-end engineer role. Good luck and have fun (as they say…)
This is a very nice feature, one of the great ideas that came with mootools 1.2. You can store any property within elements by simply mimicking the markup of <div myprop=”myvalue”> in javascript. However, setting such proprietary element properties in IE can be very slow. What mootools 1.2 did was to abstract element storage into a global object with the… Read more →
I wrote this a while back when I needed to do pseudo AJAX calls to a remote host. Due to XSS restrictions and security policies, a normal XMLHttpRequest (XHR) call is not allowed to work across domains or even sub-domains. But Yahoo’s YQL interface kindly lets you GET any URL (which also means being able to submit via GET), irregardless… Read more →
Nothing like being egocentric so here’s what you can do to add latest tweets of a particular user to your site through mootools. This class totally forked from a post by AppDen (Scott Kyle) so feel free to give him some love, he deserves it for being such a bright spark. You can also “play” with this live on JSFiddle… Read more →
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