In this article I’ll explain how to submit your forms using some Mootools magic. The techniques used are pretty basic and easy to understand. Sit back and relax, or just take a look at the result.

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In this post I’ll share three might-come-in-handy javascript techniques I often use. These techniques are: using the javascript ‘with’ keyword, using the ‘String.indexOf’ function to shorten if conditions, and using the ‘arguments’ array to get a better understanding of how (undocumented) functions work.

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Sorry for all those waiting on the next release of Plotr. Tomorrow I’m leaving the Netherlands for a summer holiday in Turkey for 11 days. There have been so many changes to the Plotr code that I couldn’t test it in all browsers. That’s the reason I’m not releasing Plotr yet. But for those interested, I created a configuration tool. You can use this web app to stylize charts, and then generate the code. As you’ll see the options are changed, Plotr 0.3.0 is not(!) backwards compatible.

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“The dollar sign ($) and the underscore (_) are permitted anywhere in an identifier. The dollar sign is intended for use only in mechanically generated code” (page 14 Ecma-262).

It took some time but now I finally can release Plotr v0.2.0. For those who don’t know what Plotr is, Plotr is a javascript charting framework built on top of PrototypeJS. This version includes many bug fixes and some new features, like drawing shadows and showing legends.

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Well, it’s been a while since my last post. I couldn’t find any interesting subjects to write about. Anyway, today I’ll write about sorting arrays. I’ll start with sorting arrays numerically and alphabetically, to introduce you some basic techniques.

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Lately I got a lot of questions (comments/emails) from people who have problems with getting their javascripts working. I really enjoy it when I can help other people with such things, but I’m a very busy man. So this article’ll be about getting help from javascript specialists.

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Thomas Baumgartner has a nice example to make horizontal accordions work in Mootools v1.0.

HistMan is a script that let’s you manage browser history (back/forward buttons) and bookmarking in Ajax applications using Mootools. My aim is to deliver a small and efficient framework that’s easily ported to frameworks other than Mootools.

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A week ago Joe Walker posted a note on the insecurity of JSON. I’m using JSON for almost anything so I was shocked a bit by his findings.

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