Archive for the ‘javascript’ Category

updating moopop for mootools 1.2

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

After several requests to update the script, I finally had time to make the update. In fact the script was under production for more than a month running over mootools SVN builds. The update also comes with a couple additions suggested by users, and also some optimizations thanks to the new mootools 1.2 element storage.

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usability 101: adding a global “back to top” to your site

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

If there has to be one single usability issue I dislike from most sites, it is the “back to top” feature. Ugly links spread all over the place clogging the visuals of your site. It is for this reason that some months ago we developed a global unobtrusive back to top for Operator11.
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moopop: “unobtrusive” popups with mootools

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

I know, it’s quite ironic to call unobtrusive a popup window. However there are times when clients, coworkers or maintainers demand for a “simple” popup window solution. It’s for that cases that I built moopop some months ago and I’m now sharing the code.

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the web is event-driven, and so is your code

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

You click on something and then something else happens, you scroll the window and something moves around.
Welcome to the event-driven web, a concept that still some developers fail to assimilate.
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