Today I’ve finally tested jsFiddle. I’m aware of the existence quite some time now but I never took the time to check  it out. It’s a very nice shell editor with html, css and JavaScript. You don’t have to go from your code editor to your browser any more, just click run Just look at the examples or create your own snippet or project to develop your JavaScript.

I’ve heard that the beta version is coming soon and there will be lot’s of new functions. For example a  user login with lot’s of features.

Go and visit jsFiddle.net

A couple of days ago David Walsh posted a blog entry where he recommended a video from Google about JavaScript. I’ve found this very interesting and I have done some research about how to implement this very easy to Mootools. There are a lot of do’s and dont’s  but what is the best practice for us as a Mootools developer? How to avoid the basic Mootools solutions and speed up your plugins? Well, I’ll post my neat workarounds to get your speed up.

I’ll start with modifying the DOM by injecting elements with the Mootools function inject(). Injecting elements to the DOM is very common with Mootools but it will make it slow down. To speed up you’ll have to do as little DOM modification as possible.

For example you load a JSON file and add elements depending on the content of the request. In this example we don’t avoid the Mootools each() function. We focus on the point that we don’t call the inject() function every time. This is my solution. Continue Reading »

The last week I’ve completed the development of the cvLinkSelect class. I’ve added the option to disable the select elements that are not active because the previous values are not set. This is great feedback for the user!

Check the updated page for the cvLinkSelect class!

I’m searching for a easy way to style the select elements to a custum layout just like the Select Box Factory or something like that. Also I’m going to figure out if this class is usefull with a multiple select box. Anyway, I’m finished with this for the moment!

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