You should already know that MooTools has Fx.Morph, that allows you to animate multiple css properties on an element and you can also pass it a selector string so you don\’t have to type out all of the properties.
Well, you can also pull these properties by using an undocumented method in MooTools, as I just learned from Mark Obcena. How? It\’s very simple as you will see. Continue reading Search Stylesheet Selectors with MooTools
You\’ve heard of selector engines right? The engine that parses the HTML to match a string argument to return matching HTML elements? How about Sizzle and Peppy (two fast selector engines) that was released? Or how a couple JS frameworks were implementing Sizzle and the MooTools dev team decided not to follow suit?
Now, have you heard of Sly, the new selector engine on the block? No? That\’s because Harald Kirschner just released it yesterday, 03/25/09, and I can\’t tell you how awesome it is.. or can I?
I\’ll start you off with a brief description… and graphs! Continue reading Sly, New Selector Engine & How to Use in MooTools
Have you ever experienced major slowdown using IE7? It may NOT be memory related. I came across this issue while working on a bug for GameSpot. Users were complaining that the user experience was lagging. It\’s more noticeable with the forums, where the users would drag the scroll bar in long threads, but the page wouldn\’t scroll for a few seconds. RockMFR had the solution, which I shall share with you. Continue reading IE7 CSS Pseudo Selector Slowdown?
My friend Mike Horn asked me to come up with a solution for a pseudo selector in MooTools that John Resig wrote about for jQuery. To sum it up, the pseudo selector basically grabs the element that \”has\” or contains the passed-in element. After taking a look at that I came up with something. Continue reading Qualified Selectors in MooTools