The MooTools team would like to announce the launch of an enhanced MooTools web search:
MooTools Search Beta: /search
This enhanced search has been integrated with the MooTools documentation and will help you easily navigate and identify information in the documentation better than the previous documentation search. The new search system also searches multiple domains -- this will allow you to find MooTools demos, forum posts, tutorials, screencasts, and anything MooTools-related. Initial supporting domains include MooTools.net, Clientcide, The MooTorial, David Walsh Blog, etc. We will also pay attention to most-searched terms and aim to ensure the search feature is providing sufficient, quality results.
This enhanced search release is considered beta. We will soon be adding further enhancements based on team goals (including full site search, etc.) and feedback provided by our most valued asset: the MooTools community.
Special thanks to Darren Waddell (fakedarren) for all of his hard work in implementing and maintaining the new search system!
The foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but it’s all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. Here are some great plugins and tutorials that have been released recently.
MilkChart is an outstanding set of MooTools classes that create robust charts from your static data. Chart types include column, bar, line, scatter, and pie. MilkChart uses the HTML5 <canvas> tag and is only supported on browsers other than IE.
http://code.google.com/p/milkchart/
MooTools Core Developer Christoph Pojer (cpojer) released Tree Component, an advanced tree structure plugin which allows for drag and drop organization, cookie tree saving, and collapsible branches.
http://cpojer.net/blog/MooTools_Tree_Components
Authored by Justin Donato, MTMultiSelect is a great plugin that allows you to select multiple items from a paginated list. You may also search the list of items to quickly identify the items you'd like to select.
http://www.justindonato.com/demo/mtmultiselect/
MultipleLinks is a MooTools class created by Merrick Christensen. MultipleLinks is a tooltip-like plugin that provides the user a list of possible destinations to click to. MutipleLinks is also highly skinnable.
http://thejavascriptblog.com/mootools-multiple-links-class/
MooTools Core Developer Scott Kyle (appden) created Request.Twitter, a very small MooTools class to retrieve tweets from Twitter. The class is flexible in that you may define the URL to query so you may retrieve user statuses, search terms, etc. Request.Twitter is an extension of the Request.JSONP class in MooTools More, showing the power MooTools' valuable inheritance system.
http://appden.com/javascript/get-tweets-with-mootools/
These are just a few of the great MooTools plugins floating around the MooTools community recently. Keep up the good work and we look forward to featuring your future plugins in upcoming posts!