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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By : Jay L Johnston
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By: Jay L Johnston

Overview of this book

MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax. Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use AJAX to bring data to today's web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast! MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform AJAX, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from beginning to finish or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems – whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, standalone, recipe solutions.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading Google fonts!


The world is a-buzz with the excitement of every designer on the planet. Finally, we can use something other than Arial, Helvetica, and Verdana!

Get ready

Produce some markup that we can use to apply our Google fonting to.

<h1 style="font-family:'Miltonian'">Hello, my fine world</h1>
<h2 style="font-family:'UnifrakturMaguntia'">World, you are fine indeed</h2>

Note

The styling using font-family does not have to be inline. Using it within the stylesheet is perfectly acceptable. All information in Google's documentation for the font library stands; our extended class will only abstract and simplify the loading of the fonts.

How to do it...

The embed code for Google Fonts is pretty straightforward. Still, in an effort to make it simple even for non-technical designers, reduce the instantiation to a mere:

new GWFLoader({fontcsv: 'Miltonian,UnifrakturMaguntia' });

In order to pass the options and deep set them, extend the Options class in MooTools. That...