e-magine(pretty & functional)

MOOdalBox has the the honor to be the first featured post on the SkinShare dev blog, with a tutorial on how to make a quick and easy age verification procedure.

Unfortunately, this is a JavaScript only method – so it’s easily bypassed. I’ll have a version that uses more server-side scripting ready some time soon (for a project I’m working on), but this is cool and can easily enough be used just as a warning.

While browsing the e-magine forums, answering a topic here and there, I discovered very well written and simple to follow tutorial on bulding a modal login dialogue using MOOdalBox. I’m really happy to see such a piece of work – it makes the time I spent writing the scripts even more meaningful. Thank you, Jani !

So, if you ever feel like posting a word on any of my scripts on your blog, or if you feel yo can contribute, do drop me a line, be it over e-mail, on the forums, in a comment or.. anything you may find suitable. And at any time, do ask for directions, and generally.. don’t be a stranger, don’t stay anonymous – we all need to know you and meet your work

As always, credit will be given where due

I finally decided to extend the e-magine.ro community (yeah, I’m referring to you.. 5-6 guys.. ) with a forum.

Without further ado, I introduce the e-magine.ro forums

The place where you can ask and get answers from other users of my scripts if I’m somehow unavailable.
The place where you’ll find other’s solutions, publicly addressed, instead of them being lost in some forgotten inbox.
The place where you’ll get to meet other fellow programmers, aiming for the same goals.
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A fellow Romanian, Alexandru Mãrãşteanu wrote a page that’s great to check cross-browser compatibility of that CSS pattern you were just about to use but didn’t know how it would render on the client’s browser.

Just load it up in your favorite browser, see what stays red and don’t use that feature if you want to stay compatible.

Here it is: CSS patterns support.

It’s in my toolkit now

While browsing around today, I came across a really exciting piece of news: HTML 5 (AKA Web Application 1.0) is one step closer to being released and there are lots of new elements for designers to play with.

After reading the excellent article on IBM.com, I did some more browsing around, and dugg up a few more links to information on this subject. I’ve also summarized some of the new features in this post.
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It just so happened that I got a request to extend the current Tips.js script in mootools, so as to have it load contents from an AJAX source, or from the innerHTML of a DOM node. I had a go at it and thought I’d share.

If there’s enough interest on this topic, I’ll make it a plugin, with a nice bundle. Here’s a sneak preview: http://www.e-magine.ro/playground/tipsx3/

NEW: discuss TipsX3 on the forums. Get support from others using it.

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By luck, I just found out that mootools 1.1 was finally released (minutes earlier). Major changes and improvements in this release (I have been working with the dev version for a while now, so I should know ).

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MOOdalBox: A modal box (inline popup), used to display remote content loaded using AJAX, web 2.0 style, written for the mootools framework.
It can be used to display some help document, an extra options page, a registration form, etc. It eliminates the need of classic popup windows, that may get blocked by popup blockers.
It's originally based on the excellent code behind Slimbox, so it inherits most of it's qualities / functionality. Compressed, it's only 4.2 Kb (about 25 Kb, including images, CSS and a light version of mootools 1.0).

NEW: discuss MOOdalBox on the forums. Get support from others using it.

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I've recently come across this little web developer's gem. It's one of those JavaScript frameworks you can use to add pizzaz to the websites you're building, but with a twist: this one is reaaaally lightweight. You can grab it here: mootools.net. read full article