a pint of javascript (and general web stuff)

A few months ago you may have read Dave Shea’s entry on A List Apart “CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time” where he implemented a variant of his own CSS Sprites article by adding jQuery based animations. In this same article Dave encouraged us [developers] to port it to other libraries, so after a few months of inactivity I’m back with the MooTools port of this slick effect.
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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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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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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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