TinyMCE (Tiny) is regarded as one of the best open source, HTML WYSIWYG editors of our time - it’s powerful, relatively easy for browsers to digest, and free to use. The frustrations of using Tiny arise when you attempt to submit your Tiny-enhanced form via Ajax. Because your Tiny textarea inputs are converted to a mess of divs, spans, iframes, etc, Mootools Ajax.Form class fails to recognize the textarea. Fear not, there’s an easy workaround.

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In attempting to spruce up my knowledge of Javascript, I’ve been trolling around the net collecting scripts and tutorials for various Javascript libraries, mainly jQuery, MooTools, and Prototype. Of the three, MooTools seems to supply me with the most JS lovin’ - it’s easy to learn, holds super powerful Ajax abilities, and is customizable to the core.

After sorting through tons of scripts, I thought I’d share the best ones with you.

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Yep. I’m mixing programming references with The Wizard of Oz. Shut up.

The all-too-awesome PHPMailer class has been updated and is awaiting your download.

If you use MooTools (or even if you don’t), Vacuous Virtuoso’s Fancy Form is totally worth checking out. It’s a mix of CSS and Javascript that enables you to create custom form checkboxes. There are other script on the net that claim to do the same thing, but none are as cross-browser compatible.

Lastly, to add a splash of color to your ajax load processes, check out Bram Van Damme’s Progress Bar Handler. It’s probably the smoothest, best looking non-flash based progress bar on the net.

Ryan Johnson, the founder of LivePipe, created one of the best prototype-based widgets I’ve ever used.

Control Suite is a collection of six high quality widgets and controls for Web 2.0 applications built using the Prototype JavaScript framework. Each script is well tested, highly extensible, fully documented and degrades gracefully for non JavaScript enabled browsers where possible. All scripts are MIT licensed and are thus completely free for any purpose in any project.

Thus far, the SelectMultiple is finding some serious use in my web applications. Assuming I come up with something not already discussed in Ryan’s examples, I’ll post it in Labs.

Go to the official Control Suite website.