A little while ago, I posted some javascript for a mootools content slider. I’ve used it a lot in my own Ruby on Rails and PHP development work and my work with jv2 I have been itching to just drop it into my code like Squeezebox or Swfobject.
So, here it is, a fairly beta version of a horizontal content slider written with the Mootools 1.2 framework. Simply download (or copy and paste) the ContentSlider class into your page and then instantiate with the required arguments.
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HowTo, Stuff I'm Working On
content slider, javascript, mootools
I recently implemented a javascript based slider using MooTools. I’m increasingly becoming a huge fan of Mootools. Their documentation is great and the code I write just seems to be much cleaner. I don’t feel like it’s as fragile as js I’ve written in prototype/scriptaculous.
The content slider, which I pretty much implemented verbatim using Antonio Lupetti’s great tutorial at http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/01/elegant-animated-weekly-timeline-for.html.
Antonio’s tutorial is really great. It is missing two elements which I think improve the code base: Read more…
Stuff I'm Working On
coding, HowTo, javascript, mootools