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mooPlaceholder revisited: a flexible placeholder input solution for IE and older browsers

Published by on 31 Oct '11 | Leave a response

Creating some javascript that can mimic the HTML5 behavior of a placeholder= attribute on an input element can be simple. Unfortunately, getting a single solution you can work with that fits all browsers and have little overhead to work with is not that easy. The following are the requirements when making it universal: work as progressive enhancement for browsers that… Read more →

Working with dynamic Class names in MooTools

Published by on 18 Oct '11 | Leave a response

This is somewhat trivial but is also useful and is a common question that a lot of people ask. The problem is in 2 parts: How to instantiate a Class based upon a dynamic name/variable and how to identify the Class name that has created a MooTools Class instance (the prototype, really). First of all, to make a dynamic instance… Read more →