e-magine(pretty && functional)

I started out to make a vertical menu using Fx.Elements (instead of the classic horizontal one), for one of the sites I’m working on and, as always, I chose to use relatively sized elements (namely ‘em’).

However, although Fx.Base has support for specifying the unit, the original Kwicks demo doesn’t play well out of the box specifying ‘em’ as the unit.

Here’s a demo of what I did: vertical kwicks with em sized elements (notice the scalability of the layout – change the font size and it still works flawlessly)

The solution was to replace all occurences of .toInt() read full article

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 ).

Quick download link: the modular download builder. read full article

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