Comments on: Mocha UI – MooTools Canvas UI class

By: minerminer

minerminer — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:11:40 +0000

Very good UI, but updates is too recent.
The last one was in Feb, 2011

By: soundseller

soundseller — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:24:21 +0000

Simply amazing!

By: cnizz

cnizz — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:35:23 +0000

Greg has done an awesome job on this, I am actually in the process of designing a CMS using Mocha UI.

By: dror

dror — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:00:37 +0000

Does anybody knows what is the memory consumption of a canvas?
Is it the same in FF and in IE implementation of canvas?

Is it realistic to paint a picture using canvas?

By: Ryan M

Ryan M — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:24:07 +0000

This is going to look very nice on my website. Thanks bro!

By: Aaron N.

Aaron N. — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:32:43 +0000

1) Awesome work. I need to start digging into the canvas tag ASAP

2) The Mootools team is working on similar concepts

3) Check out CNET’s (a.k.a. my) StickyWin which doesn’t use canvas (yet!) but has most of the same functionality and more including modal windows and no IE6 select box issues:

http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/cnet-libraries/03-jswidgets/02-dhtml-popups#stickywin.js

There’s a default skin for it, too, but it’s based on PNGs, not canvas:

http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/cnet-libraries/03-jswidgets/02-dhtml-popups#stickywin.default.layout.js

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:56:38 +0000

Very impressive window functionality using MooTools. The unfortunate part about this is I don’t see a great amount of use for these type of “windows” YET. Ninety-X percent of websites have no use for it. The other X percent, however, should jump on this right away! Great work.

By: Cal Jacobson

Cal Jacobson — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:27:14 +0000

Kudos to Greg, this is really nice.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:49:12 +0000

Two problems:
1.) generating many windows (simply click “create” 20 times) will throw a mootools error
2.) it seems that this only works for html pages and not php pages. I cannot get the windows to align to the left even if I enter negative numbers in the config at the top of the file.

Other than that, it’s really nice. :)

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:07:47 +0000

Looks brilliant – this guy should be designing GUI’s for Linux distro’s ;-)

Technically it’s pretty impressive, too. I never thought Mootools was this capable, to be honest (I mean, “moo tools”..) – I guess it’s time to build a few proof of concepts in this baby now :-)

By: Marat Denenberg

Marat Denenberg — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:01:39 +0000

@Nick

Because mootools makes coming up with slick stuff easy =)

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:11:58 +0000

Why do these guys using Mootools always come up with the slickest styled stuff? Great work Greg, works smooth and looks super tight.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:47:10 +0000

Wow, this is really neat. I need to learn how to use the

By: Harald

Harald — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:32:17 +0000

Wow, that looks extremely sweet, building window elements with canvas … RD, adopt that design from the example for your whole page and you’ll win more visitors ;)

By: RD

RD — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:33:54 +0000

I also recommend the moo.rd extension for MooTools (examples) which provides a lot of features, like the Virtual.Box and the Virtual.Ajax, and Custom.ALert and Custom.Confirm modal box.

By: G Medina

G Medina — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:29:40 +0000

awesome…although I tried to put a select tag in there and as I expected it has the old z-index problem in IE…

By: (v)

(v) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:47:49 +0000

great alternative to ModalBox and Windoo!

By: Andy Kant

Andy Kant — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:13:07 +0000

This is a really nice idea seeing as how it works in all of the modern browsers. Keep up the good work.

By: Adam Sanderson

Adam Sanderson — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:06:00 +0000

It’s neat to see the canvas tag being used this way. The rounded corner slider is kind of neat.