It’s been some time since TextboxList got some attention. It is undoubtedly one of my most popular JavaScript projects, along with the famous Fancy Menu (MorphList) and its slideshow sibling, BarackSlideshow.
TextboxList (demo) has been rewritten from scratch, and it’s more solid than ever. The first time around, elegance was not one of the goals. I focused on releasing the first open source script that reproduced the Facebook’s tokenizer.
If you’re looking for an object-oriented, straightforward way to animate those alpha transparent PNGs, look no further.
Check out Devthought’s latest release, APNG 0.1
In my unstoppable pursuit of the best user experience scripting techniques, I decided to bring the famous BSOD to the web developers’ world.
I came up with a document describing the projections, possibilities and capabilities of my creation, which you can access here. It includes different scenarios and variations of this implementation.
Go to the project page for download and other useful links.
These two widely used scripts have been updated. BarackSlideshow now supports transition effects and can autoplay (requested by the community many times).
MorphList is now even more flexible, supporting custom markup for the dynamic background.
In my previous blogpost I explained how to extend TextboxList to add closing functionality via a link added to each box. But it was missing an important ingredient: autocompletion!
Check out a demo of TextboxList before reading!
While working on my big and exciting new project, I decided to include an input that resembles the famous Apple Mail to: textfield. I’d seen it in Facebook before, which has a really decent implementation of this concept (it work well, but it doesn’t respect any modern programming principles; basically, it’s a big tag soup with lots of inline Javascript)
I created my own, MooTools 1.2 compatible, in just 5kb. It’s not only small, but also really frexible! Here are some notes of the creation process and how to implement it in your own projects.
Let me introduce you to Fancy Menu:
When it comes to creating the navigation part of your Website, the first thing you might think of is an unordered list that you style as tabs. Lately, such navbars are everywhere, as many people believe they’ll make their site more Web 2.0-compatible. Personally, I just think they’re semantically better and accessible.
In this article I’ll go through the creation of a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends. Thanks to the great Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible!
