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The guys over at MooTools created a whole series of remote server JavaScript classes that make it easier to communicate asynchronously with the server. One of the easiest is the object found in MooTool’s Ajax.js file aptly named the Ajax object.The Ajax object is not really designed for complex handling of the response from […]

Often you wish to use setTimeout to call a function in the objects you are creating with MooTools or perhaps even more often you would like to pass parameters into your set time out calls. Well, the MooTools framework has given us a plethora of tools to do all of this and more. […]

I have done some debugging of the color picker in Opera. There were problems with many of the Canvas functions needed in Opera 9.0, but things work beautifully in Opera 9.1.

I have also done some testing with Firefox 1.5 and Safari. Things do not work at all well in FireFox 1.5 as it […]

Welcome to the final installation of my JavaScript based Color Picker series. I have made a lot of changes to the color picker since my last installment.

Layout
I found some major problems based on the document type with the way I was laying out elements in the color picker dialog, so I decided that […]

With the previous implementation of the Color Picker I used div elements to make the individual “pixels” of the color picker, attaching an event to each div element. This incurs quite a bit of overhead, causing the color picker to perform poorly especially on slower systems. The most obvious way to create something […]

I thought it would be cool to have a color picker for a number of dynamic web applications, so I decided to go about making one. What follows here is the basics of the first iteration of a color picker. This is by no means the most efficient that it could be, certainly […]