Archive for category MooTools

This article is a follow-up on my previous post on writing a linked list class in MooTools. In that post, I offered an implementation of a singly-linked list in JavaScript and gave a challenge: To reverse a linked list in place, starting with only a reference to the head. The challenge also forbade the use of storing the data externally — that is to say, you can’t just iterate over the linked list and stuff the items in a new array, then reverse the array. Read the rest of this entry »

A commonly used data structure in Java and other programming languages is the linked list (Wikipedia). It is similar to an array in that it is a way to store a collection of objects in sequence, however unlike an array you cannot access items in the collection by index. Instead, you access them through links from other items in the collection, or from the initial head or tail link (which can typically accessed with getFirst() and getLast() methods, respectively). Read the rest of this entry »

MooTools makes working with cookies quite easy. Based on functions from Paul Peter Koch’s QuirksMode, the MooTools API for handling cookies is intuitive and easy to remember. Read the rest of this entry »

One of my minor frustrations on the MooTools download page has always been having to manually select each component to add. While it is nice that you can keep the filesize down by omitting components that you don’t need, I wish they had a way to select all components at once. Read the rest of this entry »