MooTools Forge

MooTools.net has a nice new feature, called Forge. It's a code repository for developers who are willing to share their MooTools based projects. At this time, it has only 36 scripts, but I'm sure, that this will be multiplied in a shot time, check AjaxRain.com for instance. It's a great collection of scripts, but it's uncontrolled.

What I like about MooTools Forge, is that they give you a guideline on how to publish you code. The first step is posting the project into GitHub, then you have to add a simple "yml" file to describe your package. You can even define the dependencies. Read more here.

It does 4 things at a time: provide documentation, example codes, demos and download opportunity. Official MooTools projects will be stored here also.

DATA URI scheme

This is a good-to-know piece of web development. Images, HTML, data objects can be rendered with a single URI.
The Hello world example of the URI data scheme is:

// copy this to the address bar
data:text/html;charset=utf-8,
hello world

data:[][;charset=""][;base64],

• Reduce HTTP requests
• Create crazy things, like: this and this.
• Useful for bookmarklets
• Generate images on the fly
• CSS also supports it

Tabbed CSS only website template

Did you know what a small anchor link can do for you? More, than you might think. You can turn it into an advanced navigation on your website. There is nothing new in this, it was designed to do this. This only make sense, if the scrollbars are visible in your browser, isn't it? Well, no. Anchor links even work, when the invisible content is in an overflow: hidden container. The target element should have the same ID as the anchor link's href attribute.

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   Very very long text... images... forms... btw my over flow is hidden...
   

       I'm invisible by default, 
       but your click just revealed me. :)
   

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