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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax.
Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use AJAX to bring data to today's web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast!
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform AJAX, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from beginning to finish or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution.
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems – whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it.
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, standalone, recipe solutions.
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
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About the Author
Jay's first web work was in 1996 for the United States Army where he served the 5/5 Battalion Headquarters with the 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea.
Currently full time as Senior PHP Developer for ICGLink, Inc. managing high-end, custom development for the 2,000+ client base, Jay holds certifications in Linux, MySQL, and PHP5.
Introduced to the MooTools framework in 2007 while on permanent contract at Marshall Space Flight Center, Jay has incorporated Moo into every single new development since and frequently writes canned moo-solutions for use within the company.
To know more about the author, visit his website at http://jayjohnston.com.
About the Reviewer
Andy Meerwaldt is a Dutch web developer with a BIT (Bachelor of Information Technology) degree, and has been developing PHP applications since 2004. He started using the Kohana Framework as his default framework. He has improved on his skill in Object Oriented Programming and the use of Design patterns over time. His aim is to build better and smoother web applications with full functionality for raising the user experience.
Besides PHP Andy is experienced in JavaScript and is still adopting new techniques and best practices for getting the most out of the Web. Further on, he's interested in high scalability, performance, and usability.
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Preface
MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax.
Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use Ajax to bring data to today's web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast!
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform Ajax, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from the beginning to the end or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution.
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it.
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, stand-alone, recipe solutions.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Oldies-but-Goodies: Foundational Moo. Learn foundational MooTool basics like including MooTools in HTML, making and looping over arrays, grabbing elements, and dragging items!
Chapter 2, Switching Paddles Midstream: Changing HTML After Page Load. Delve into changing HTML after load with working examples of finding, moving, adding, and removing elements and groups of elements.
Chapter 3, And on the 8th Day: Creating HTML Elements. Create HTML elements like IFRAMEs, A tags, and form elements and inject them into tables, table rows, and div elements.
Chapter 4, That's Not All Folks: Animation and Scrolling. Animate the Internet with morphs, tweens, slides, and scrolls. Make thumbnails scroll and users drool.
Chapter 5, Mr. Clean Uses Ajax: Remote Asynchronous Calls. Fire remote Ajax calls, on page, bringing them into the Web 2.0 arena where user interfaces are cool and fun.
Chapter 6, Easy Come, Easy Go: Drag and Drop. Drag and drop your way to shopping carts and interfaces that create return users and Internet buzz.
Chapter 7, Knock and the Door Will Open: Events and Listeners. Open the door to flexibility and functionality by adding event listeners and chains of actions.
Chapter 8, Dynamite! (Movin' On Up): Working with Transitions. Use transitions to save space, welcome users, make ducks bounce, and golf balls roll.
Chapter 9, WTFudge is Going On?: Troubleshooting MooTools. Troubleshoot scripting issues with tools of the professional development trade.
Chapter 10, Enough Is Never Enough: Extending MooTools. MooTools is highly extensible and allows for simple extension of existing classes and DOM elements. Level up by extending MooTools with custom plugins.
What you need for this book
To run the examples in the book following software will be required:
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Software Name
URL
1
Apache
http://httpd.apache.org/
2
Microsoft IIS
http://www.iis.net/
Additionally the following tools are helpful, but are not strictly required:
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Software Name
URL
1
PHP
http://php.net
2
ColdFusion
http://adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html
Who this book is for
Users of all skill levels will find this book useful. Advanced users will expand their knowledge of MooTools interaction. Intermediate users will delve into new concepts of usage. Novice users will find they are carefully taken through each facet of knowledge necessary to rapidly become intermediate users.
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In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: "Please do always include a DOCTYPE, and opening HTML, HEAD, TITLE, and META tag for the HTTP-EQUIV and CONTENT".
A block of code is set as follows:
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "The link labeled GET MOO.FX FOR MOOTOOLS leads us to MooTools".
Note
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Chapter 1. Oldies-but-Goodies: Foundational Moo
Foundational MooTool basics top the record charts both in the good old days and in this chapter: MooTool versions, documentation, and hosting:
MooTroduction
All Packt Publishing Cookbook Series books are meant to be read without procedural constraint. That means, we can open any page in the book and just start mooing. This book, being a cookbook, follows that crucial precept while also harboring a secret agenda to move from smaller concepts to larger concepts for the benefit of any potentially existing procedural readers. Those of us that may be new to these concepts will benefit greatly from this chapter.
MooTools was conceived by Valerio Proietti and copy written under MIT License in 2006. We send a great round of roaring applause to Valerio for creating the Moo.FX (My Object Oriented Effects) plugin for Prototype, a JavaScript abstraction library. That work gave life to an arguably more effects-oriented (and highly extensible) abstraction layer of its own: MooTools (My Object Oriented Tools).
See also
Find more information about Moo.FX at http://moofx.mad4milk.net/. The link labeled GET MOO.FX FOR MOOTOOLS leads us to MooTools, which is exactly what we are delving into; so we continue, confident that with MooTools, we are getting what Moo.FX has become.
