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In a post just a week or two ago I covered the topic of searching select dropdowns on key events. It seemed to work ok, but could use a bit of polishing. However for the project I was working on I ended up needing something a little more… “Obvious”. So the solution I came up [...]

Its been a while in the making, I’ve finally gotten Impromptu into Github, something I should have done a long time back. I’m excited to see how it evolves now, as it has been at a very stable 3.1 for a while. Also I created a themes folder with alternate themes (cough cough.. if you [...]

I swapped out a couple dark colors here on the site for something a little lighter. I also made a transition from jQuery to Mootools, which wasn’t much of a move as syntax highlighting and an Impromptu form were the only things I had going on here. It gave me a good opportunity to have [...]

The jQuery Impromptu Loan Calculator has been around for some time now, but it had a couple things missing. First was a Down Payment option. This is pretty easy to figure really in your head before computing the numbers, but its always included in these type calculations. I guess its the more formal approach. Secondly, [...]

Good news all the way around with the new Mootools release. First off Mootools is showing off its fast new selector engine Slick. Second, Moopromptu (the mootools version of Impromptu) works with the new release! Recently I also moved Moopromptu over to Forge, so you can check it out there. My thoughts on the new [...]