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Archive for Category ‘Javascript’

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CwVideo – Mootools helper for HTML5 video ~ featured

Posted 3 months ago in Javascript

In the last two months I wrote some blog posts about the HTML5 video tag and how to use Mootools for this. Now I put together all this stuff into a mootools-plugin which enables the events and properties of the HTML5 video tag and features extensions of Fx.Slider to create a timeline and a volume slider.

You can find everything here:

CwVideo plugin »
HTML 5 video & mootools, part 2: Timeline

After creating buttons and a volume slider in the last post, we’re now going to develop a time slider — a movable slider which shows the current time of the video and which can be dragged to move the video playback accordingly. … Continue reading »


HTML 5 video & Mootools

Posted 4 months ago in Javascript
HTML 5 video & Mootools

This is about scripting the HTML 5 video-tag with Mootools 1.2.

One might ask, what is special about the video tag? At the first look nothing, it’s a HTML-element like any other. But if you try to use some mootools functions (adding events or querying properties) you soon realize that it doesn’t work out of the box in the current release. But there’s a workaround. … Continue reading »


The last last post was about the HTML 5 video tag, now we’ll have a look at the DOM side of things: Attributes and Events. … Continue reading »

Mootools Transitions explained

Posted 5 months ago in Javascript
Mootools Transitions explained

An in-depth tutorial about Mootools Transitions

Usually when using an effect I used to try out possible transitions one after another until I found the right one, but this got quite boring after some time, so I looked at the mootools source code to understand the logic behind – that’s what this tutorial is about. … Continue reading »


Tutorial Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Live demo

How to use Mootools Formvalidator effectively – a tutorial in 4 parts … Continue reading »

CwComplete – a small Mootools autocompleter

Posted 6 months ago in Javascript

If you need an easy autocompleter for javascript/mootools, have a look at CwComplete. It shows possible completions on user input – either via Ajax or using your own Javascript array/callback function.

Yes, there are already other autocompletion tools for mootools with more possibilities and features, but for many cases, this tool might be sufficient..

CwComplete page »