For reasons that I might outline in another post sometime, I recently decided to replace MooTools as the JavaScript library behind our company CMS (which I’m in the process of rewriting from scratch) with jQuery.
It’s been a few weeks now since I made the decision and I’m starting to become more comfortable with jQuery’s quite [...]
A few brief entries from the ‘tiny yet annoying bugs that take far too much time to fix’ file…
I’m creating forms dynamically using JavaScript. This has led to a number of problems with IE6:
Dynamic checkboxes/radio buttons and the ‘checked’ attribute
When creating a field, I wanted to be able to apply a ‘default’ value — for [...]
More of a reminder for myself than anything: here’s a simple changelog that could be of use when updating scripts to MooTools 1.2.
Just a quick heads-up for those who’ve been complaining about the MooTools version of the multiple-file uploader not working with MooTools 1.2 — it’s now been updated. The widget required three small modifications due to changes to MooTools’ syntax.
Get the modified code here (old 1.1x-compatible version also included).
Some time back, while experimenting with MooTools, I found myself with the requirement to be able to call a function whenever a particular method on a given class was called. In effect, I needed to treat the class’s method as an event and fire a particular function when the method was called.
So I wrote a [...]