I have found a very nice and useful mootools color picker in moorainbow. One confusing aspect of the tool, however, is that people tend to just close the color picker window without hitting the “Select” button – which means the onComplete event never gets fired. Since I typically would put the ajax call to save the color selection back to the server in the onComplete event, this is a problem.
If you’re using the lastest version (mooRainbow.1.2b2.js) – you can do a quick modification to call the onComplete event whenever the color picker window gets closed. Simple replace line 168 ( if (this.visible) …. ) with:
if(this.visible) {
this.hide(this.layout);
this.fireEvent('onComplete', [this.sets, this]);
}
Safely adding a query parameter to all anchor links on a page with javascript is easy with mootools:
It does require you to have the core and more mootools files available with at least the URI and String.QueryString packages in the more file.
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This post continues Part 1 of All About Extendr.com. In this post I’ll share a few more features that come with an extendr.com account.
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One site I’ve spent quite a bit of time the last few months working on is extendr.com. I started working on extendr.com sometime mid-2008 with Joe Rueter. The goal was to produce an easy-to-create page for people to consolidate their web footprint; to put all their links in one place. The end result was to be a simple and clean landing page with a well organized list of links for a person. We’ve come a long way since then, discovering new feature ideas along the way – even finally getting a premium offering in place. I’d like to share many of the features extendr offers.
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I’ve recently updated some things on TweetThisText.com (see here for an overview of service).
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I have created a new service called TweetThisText.com. It is a service to help tweet sections of a text that are too long for twitter’s character limit and don’t otherwise have a dedicated url that makes sense to link to. Let’s say there’s a website with a paragraph buried in the middle that you would like to quote in a twitter conversation. Instead of linking to the entire web page and trying to explain “check out the 3rd paragraph from the bottom…”, you can share just the applicable text with TweetThisText.com.
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