Best way to find if a DOM object is visible or not, using mootools

Question

What is the best way to find if a DOM object is visible?

Various cases when object is considered not visible:

1. display: none;
2. visibility: hidden;
3. one of the parents has display: none or visibility: hidden
4. Another DOM element is obscuring the queried element (Nice to have, but I can manage without it).
5. Item outside of screen boundaries.

Answer 1

since its mootools and this got dealt with on the mootools mail list and it is now going to be a part of Element.shortcuts...

/*
* Inspired from http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/commit/7631f9c3f85e5fa72ac51532399cb593c2cdc71f
* and this http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/commit/5716360040a440041da19823964f96d025ca734b
* and then http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4512
*/

Element.implement({

  isHidden: function(){
    var w = this.offsetWidth, h = this.offsetHeight,
    force = (this.tagName === 'TR');
    return (w===0 && h===0 && !force) ? true : (w!==0 && h!==0 && !force) ? false : this.getStyle('display') === 'none';
  },

  isVisible: function(){
    return !this.isHidden();
  }

});

http://gist.github.com/137880