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More an more sites are using(or going to use) JavaScript(library or plain) on there website(s). You probably dont see much of these javascript pieces, but one cool piece of JavaScript cant be missed, and it’s called a lightbox.

A JavaScript ligthbox is a fast growing way to present in a nice way an images or something else like inline html, video or an external site without opening a new window. In the old days most images(or other content) where presented in a new tab/window, which isn’t a pretty way to do this if you ask me.

After a lot of jQuery posts it’s time for an almost forgotten framework, Mootools. jQuery is more popular at this moment because it’s easier to use than Mootools, but Mootools is still a very powerfull javascript framework. Mootools is a good and useful framework but more for the javascript developer.

This collection of Mootools plugins contains some pretty cool and very useful stuff. A collection of Mootools menu plugins can be found here.

It’s time for some MooTools stuff so i have made a small list of MooTools menu plugins. I have placed a variety of menu’s, drop downs, imagesliders, Vertical & Horizontal, fisheye, list and more here.

It’s time for some MooTools stuff, this time i found a nice and very useful MooTools slider. noobSlide is a lightweight “class” written with the mootools library with which you can build “slides” from simple to complex, clear that to get the maximum benefit you need to learn how to work with mootools.

ContextMenu is a highly customizable, compact context menu script written with CSS, XHTML, and the MooTools javascript framework. ContextMenu allows you to offer stylish, functional context menus on your website.

I guess pretty much everyone has seen Barack Obama’s website by now, which is clearly one of the prettiest of all candidates we’ve heard of so far. Not only is it an example of state-of-the-art design, but it’s also nice to navigate and interact with.

Tooltip let’s you create mouse over tooltips to your content and allows you to show additional information.It using Gzip loader technique that will deliver CSS and Javascript files more faster and also with minimun HTTP request.Need MooTools,PHP and a few js.

RabidRatings is a simple but eye-caching ratings system which allows users to your website to rate virtually anything.

Calendar is a Javascript class that adds accessible and unobtrusive date-pickers to your form elements. This class is a compilation of many date-pickers I have implemented over the years and has been completely re-written for Mootools.

Image protection is a hot topic on the net these days, and why shouldn’t it be? If you spent two hours designing an awesome graphic, would you want it ripped of in matter of seconds?