How about a little MooTools with your AJAX?
New ways to use AJAX on your website abound, but which tool framework should you use?
Over the next few posts we’ll share some of our favorites, with examples to things we’ve done, as well as other cool sites out there that use these frameworks too.
MooTools is one of our new favs. The folks at Greening You wanted to add some snazzy to their homepage. Moo Tools gives us a way to dynamically float headlines over the header images and add a pop-up text box to the feature story.
These stories and headlines can be updated by Greening You staff through the Joomla portal admin, so they always look fresh, without having to know a stitch of code.
Got panoramic images on your site and you want a light and easily implemented way to show them off? Check this out. or you can build a sweet little gallery using Mootools.js and Electric Prizm’s Slideshow class for Mootools.
CNet likes MooTools too. In fact, they’re using it to replace some widgets previously done in Flash on their TV site, like their video menus. Here’s a link to MooScroller in case you want to give it a try, and several other nifty projects in development by CNet’s team.
It’s not all graphics with MooTools, oh no. Her’s an example of a WYSIWYG text editor, a calendar date picker, and Suzuki uses MooTools for the text news ticker here, as well as for the feature boxes. There are form vailidator scripts and even some asyncronous form submission scripts.
Next time you’ve got some extra space in your schedule for a little professional development, why not spend some time with MooTools?