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mootools from the guys at mad4milk is my favourite JavaScript framework and version 1 has just been released with many improvements and added features. And the new website is a million times better than the script.aculo.us redesign disaster.

Back in April 2005, I wrote about a JavaScript system to regain control of an orphaned popup window. A couple of days ago, Robert Emmery left a comment stating that he had a simpler solution that didn’t require the somewhat clumsy notifier mechanism. Of course, at first, I didn’t believe him. Surely, nobody can solve [...]

Maybe this is isn’t new for most people but it certainly confused the hell out of me.
I am working on a dynamic script loader. The basic concept is this:

Get all script tags in the document
Loop over them and find the one with the string “?load=” in its src attribute
Extract a list of scripts to include [...]

Ben Forta posted a link to an interview with Dave Spurr today. I know Dave quite well and even linked to some excellent work of his a few months ago. The reason I’m blogging about this is that I’m quite impressed that his name showed up on Forta’s blog but also to point out that [...]

This is one tool to bookmark if you’re thinking of building an image cropper into one of your apps. It’s built with the Prototype and script.aculo.us frameworks (which I strongly recommend by the way), it has plenty of configuration options and it feels very slick. I love how the UI is an exact implementation of [...]