May 29th, 2008 by Aaron N.
I’ve been doing a lot of testing lately with the impending release of our library for MooTools 1.2, and testing in all the versions of IE is a pain. Well, maybe not anymore:
via Ajaxian:
Testing your sites on different versions of Internet Explorer has always been notoriously difficult mainly due to the fact that Microsoft prevents you from running to different versions of the browser in Windows. Sure there have been solutions to get around this limitation but in my experience, they’ve always caused unexpected results and instability for the operating system or required you to run a VM. Not ideal.
Jean-Fabrice RABAUTE, the man behind the IE debugger DebugBar, has come up with a nice solution he’s called IETester. This free tool allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
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May 5th, 2008 by Aaron N.
In our last post we went through all the new goodies that can be found in our release candidate of our code for MooTools 1.2. We’ve spent a bit of time fixing the few bugs we’ve found and gotten emails about (thanks!) and also converted our copies of Autocompleter (authored by Harald Krishner) and also Slimbox, (originally authored by Christophe Beyls).
Autocompleter
For those keeping score, Autocompleter has already been refactored for MooTools 1.2 by its author (the afore mentioned Harald Krishner – aka digitarald). It’s a great class and we didn’t really have any thing to change about it, so why do we include it in our libraries? Well, partly because we want to make use of it, but also because we extend it. We add Autocompleter.JsonP which implements our JsonP request class for script injection instead of Ajax. We also extend it to inject our CSS automatically, (read more about how we manage assets and how you should use these methods yourself).
Finally, we had the time to create unit tests and documentation for the Autocompleter class, which always comes in handy.
Slimbox
Slimbox is a MooTools port of the popular Lightbox JavaScript library. The author of the port (Christophe Beyls) hasn’t updated it to 1.2, but we had it in our library already. The real change we’ve made is that it’s now a class, where as with the original (and the port that Christophe did), it’s just a namespace of methods and values. By making it a class it’s possible to have options and events, for there to be more than one instance on a page, and for you to extend it to alter the functionality.
Out of the box though, it works just like the original lightbox script.
On RC2 of Our Code Base
Stay tuned for more goodness as we continue our push for our own release of our plugin libraries. At this point the code should be stable enough for you to start to actually use if you want to. As mentioned in our last post, we have specs and unit tests that you can run through in the browsers you support to see if you find any issues. As always, let us know if you find anything that’s out of whack.
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