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Mootools Idle Spy - Detecting the idle status

Our mission as programmers is to take care of our users and our server resources. Ajax applications tend to make constant requests to the server, and even if you change to another window or tab often the apps continue to run wasting CPU, bandwidth and other server resources.
Imagine an application like Gmail, that is [...]


PNG Fix for IE6 with Mootools - e24PNGFix

I use to lost about 2-3 hours a day fixing bugs at Internet Explorer 6. IE6 puts us in the disyuntiva of limit our creativity or lost the IE6 users quote.
One of the main problems of IE6 is its incompatibility with transparent PNGs. This is solved by one of its filters, so far I had [...]


Mootools 1.2.3 and Clientcide 2.1.0 Released Today

Today have been released mootools 1.2.3, the last step before release the 2.0 version. It is mainly a set of bug fixes, but have a new great feature for frameworks compatibility.
Although it is not recommended to use different frameworks at the same page, it is true that there are cases that we can’t control that, [...]


Monitor the scroll with e24ScrollEvents for mootools

Introduction
David Walsh released his ScrollSpy plug-in some days ago. It have almost the same objectives as e24ScrollEvents. By then i had e24ScrollEvents almost finished for one of my projects. I didn’t stop working on it since it have some added values that makes it very easy to use. So, you are free to compare both [...]


Attract the user’s attention using e24SpotLight for mootools

Introduction
e24SpotLight is a plug-in for Mootools that lets attract the user’s attention over a region. The effect simulates a lights off letting only the desired region illuminated.
Demos
Demo1: Selecting an object
Demo2: Selecting a region
Demo3: e24Presenter + e24SpotLight
Usage
Include Mootools 1.2.2 Core inside the HTML header. Remember that you can generate an optimum version of the mootools library [...]


e24BubbleFx - Photo bubble transition effect

Introduction
e24BubbleFx is a plugin for Mootools that makes a transition between two photos. The transition comes in form of a bubble that move around the back picture discovering it.
But better we see it in action with the following demos.
Demos
Demo1: Basic
Demo2: Advanced
Usage
Include Mootools 1.2.2 Core inside the HTML header. Remember that you can generate an optimum [...]


Monperla.es – Web totalmente Ajax desarrollada con prototype y scriptaculous

Since we began to post in this blog, we have been offering components and techniques to develop a site using Ajax. Today we are going to put everything together and we see how to get results that some time age was only possible using Flash.
The study case is Monperla, an online shop that sells pearl [...]


Ajaxigg - All the news about the AJAX’s world

equipo24 is glad to announce the release of  Ajaxigg. Ajaxigg is project similar to digg.com and meneame.es where the users can share news, components and resources about the Ajax’s world. On Ajaxigg the users decide which news are more relevant trough its vote system.
In this moment it is only available in Spanish but will be [...]


Async ajax calls, the key for the web2.0 search engines

The Ajax’s main feature is the async call possibility, it lets serve results without interrupt the user experience on the page. This is the main key for today’s web2.0 search engines.
Here you have some good examples that make our life easy:

Minube - Fly search engine
Shopall
AjaxLookup Domain Whois

If you want to check what I am [...]


AJAX History Manager, back button fix

One of the major issues on AJAX web applications is the accesibility and usability lacks. Many users have manies and don¡t undestands about AJAX, they only expects that if they click the back button then it must works as always and get them back to the previous screen.
Digitarald.de have developed a solution HistoryManager - The [...]