Comments on: Mootools 1.0 Announced

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:10:55 +0000

I’ve been a frequent prototype user but recently switched over to mootools and never looked back. In comparison to prototype/scriptaculous mootools offers cleaner, easier to understand code in a way smaller library (filesize wise) and has great documentation.

The new prototype website offers some great documentation on that library too but that’s too little too late … i’m a moo fan now!

Moo!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:03:45 +0000

Started with moo.fx and have loved it every step of the way. Great, elegant code. Easy to use, easy to learn.

By: Somebody Else

Somebody Else — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:13:23 +0000

Moo!

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:12:29 +0000

Ease of use and elegant design.

Let this mark the death of flash.

So it is written.

So it is done.

By: Mike Ritchie

Mike Ritchie — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:51:32 +0000

One more shout out for mootools here! I started with Protaculous as well, and don’t have anything bad to say about it, but it does seem that moo can do pretty much the same things with less code.

By: Dan Kubb

Dan Kubb — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:40:34 +0000

This is the first time I’ve heard of the advantages of Class events over element events. It does make some sense though. Why aren’t other frameworks going in that direction? Just wondering what the drawbacks are to this approach.

By: Sean Madde

Sean Madde — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:04:11 +0000

I’ve been using mootools for quite some time now and must say the biggest draw for me is the inclusion of the penner easing equations. The FX library is incredibly solid, doesn’t require div-itis, and uses the same physics easing equations as most flash users. Also, the incredibly small size and built in compression/obfuscation is invaluable.

By: Andrew warner

Andrew warner — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:33:41 +0000

Does this version have something similar to Prototype’s onLoading = function option for the ajax class? It’s the only thing miss from Prototype.

By: markus941

markus941 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:28:25 +0000

It’s really lightweight and efficient. I just wish they had better demos and example code. They used to but they disappeared for some strange reason.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:20:10 +0000

Been using it on an intranet but pretty soon I will be releasing two or three public sites with moo.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:34:38 +0000

Moo rocks

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:05:48 +0000

Been using moo in projects for the past year. Moo is one of those things that you would code if you had the time – it really is elegant code.

By: mdm-adph

mdm-adph — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:22:43 +0000

yay! about time a final release came out — I love this little engine. but… the documentation for Tips.js stinks! :P

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:42:56 +0000

I started off with moo.fx, mootools’s predecessor, because it was the easiest/lightest way to do simple transitions I could find. Then it added a lightweight XHR class, which also made life easier, and so on…

By: Teun

Teun — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:56:37 +0000

Even though I miss a few Prototype features (especially the onFailure event in Ajax)

//sending a XMLHTTPRequest var testXHR = new XHR( { method: 'get', onSucces: showSucces, onFailure: showFailure, }).send('http://example.com/script.php','mootools=wicked_cool&favorite=solutoire.com');

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:52:40 +0000

I use it on my site http://www.stage.fm/ for things like drop down search menus, sortables, and severial custom apps. It is great, it provides a clear OO syntax (like Dean Edwards base.js) and most of prototype’s functionality, but without the bloat. (Not to say that prototype is extremely bloated) The backend is done in rails and I am working on creating moo bindings for all of the prototype helpers in rails.

By: Tim Jansen

Tim Jansen — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:08:24 +0000

Recently I started using Prototype for a new project, but started looking for an alternative pretty soon: the size of Prototype 1.0, 70kb, is really large for a JavaScript library that does not even have widgets or effects. The best compressor I found reduced it to 38kb IIRC, but still… I also noticed that on computers in the 1 Ghz range the loading and parsing of Prototype caused a noticable and somewhat annoying delay every time a page was loaded – even when the page was stored locally.

So I looked for an alternative and found mootools. Thanks to the modular download I could easily create a small and compressed version. So now I am down to 13 kb, and the delay is gone. Even though I miss a few Prototype features (especially the onFailure event in Ajax), I am happy overall.

By: digitarald

digitarald — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:04:28 +0000

If u want to get startet with mootools, here is the official beginners guide:
http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/mootorial

I started with mootools some time ago and work with 1.0 since its in development, i love it. Smooth effects, clean code, best framework i ever used. If u want a modular framework with minimal size and full of nice features, u need mootools ;)

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:13:05 +0000

SmoothGallery (http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/) uses Mootools and is a very handy tool indeed. Besides that, I’d never heard of it.