Popups/dialog boxes in MooTools
Published July 2nd, 2008I’m just starting preliminary work on a complete (and long overdue) rewrite of our project’s CMS. Right now I’m really just tinkering around, exploring some ideas. As part of this process I wanted to experiment with some dialog boxes, and not wanting to reinvent the wheel I decided to look for a ready-to-use project based on MooTools, our JavaScript library of choice.
My first stop would have been the official MooTools forum, but in their wisdom the project’s leaders have decided to remove them completely. The oft-mooted ‘MooForge’ has never materialised but after exploring a variety of blind alleys I came across MooScripts, an unofficial but quite comprehensive collection of MooTools add-on scripts.
From there I was led to the Mocha UI project, which is a fairly lightweight implementation of dialog boxes for MooTools 1.2. It’s feature list is impressive and it’s quick too (compared to others I tried). Like Mootools it also uses the very permissive MIT licence, which basically says ‘use it how you like, at your own risk’.
siliconloop on August 6, 2008
mootools forum has been moved to google groups. considering how unfriendly the last forum was, it’s probably a good thing to move it