About this site

What it was

The original site called itself Think AJAX, Get Gueschla ! Its first post promised tips picked up on client projects, snippets of code, Web 2.0 news and the author's own side projects, and for about two years it delivered exactly that. The posts are short and practical. A good share of them are about MooTools, the JavaScript framework the author preferred to jQuery and Prototype, and about getting CSS to behave in Internet Explorer 6.

The Labs section held four free tools. Smoothbox, a MooTools version of the Thickbox modal window, was by far the most popular. Its page grew to hundreds of comments, mostly people asking how to make it work on their own sites, with the author answering in English and French.

The last post went up on 21 January 2009. The archive shows the blog still online, unchanged, until late 2017. After that the domain lapsed, and what the archive caught from later owners has nothing to do with the blog and is not part of this site.

What this site is

A reading of the original, for people who never read French or never saw it the first time. Every post is at its original address. The French text is quoted in full in a dark panel styled after Green Chaud, the author's own editor theme, with an English summary above it and a note below on what happened next: which browser bugs went away, which tools closed, what the web platform now does natively.

The Labs pages explain each tool for a 2026 reader. The Smoothbox page includes a small working example of the browser's built-in <dialog> element, which does the job Smoothbox did without any library.

What was left out

• Readers' comments. They carry real names and links, and they were written for a conversation that ended long ago. Comment counts are mentioned where they help.
• Downloads. The original Labs pages offered JavaScript files, a userscript and theme archives. None of them are hosted here.
• The author's name. This site is not written by, or on behalf of, the person who wrote the blog.
• Screenshots and images from the posts, most of which the archive never saved.

How it was made

Posts were rebuilt from Internet Archive captures taken between 2007 and 2016, choosing for each page the earliest capture that held the full text. Outside links inside the French text are shown as plain words, since most of the sites they pointed to have gone or changed hands. The English is new, and where it states something that happened after 2009, it sticks to well-documented facts.

If you wrote the original blog and would like the domain back, it's yours, no charge.