Bearfruit

I’ve spent a good amount of time in the #mootools irc channel too, insanekane. I’ve heard on many occasions people in the forums being mocked for asking “stupid” questions, esp about accordions. As a matter of fact, asking about accordions is almost guaranteed to get you mocked. Then there’s also a lot of “jQuery stinks…” type of chatter.

Enrique - sorry that wasn’t technical enough for you. I do have a job, and as a matter of fact my website is listed on the homepage of mootools.net. Here are some technical thoughts:

• It would be nice if mootools could be split into seperate files such as “core” and “effects” in order to cut down on the file size.
• Many of the popular toolkits are coming out with UI libraries based on the toolkit. This would be nice to have and if it were present I’d probably not even consider switching
• jQuery has closed the performance gap with mootools so that there is little difference between the two
• namespace clash - what happens if you have two toolkits that both want to define $()? It would be nice for moo to offer the ability to avoid this.

But really, it comes down to being on the winning team. I’ve seen too many technically superior projects die. It feels like moo is stagnating, focusing on very technical and abstract features. Meanwhile, jquery and others are working on shiny new stuff that makes the average scripter go “oooh… ahhh…”

Don’t get me wrong,

• I’m not ditching moo yet, I’m just looking around to see what else is out there. However, I’m starting to feel a little jealous of what some of the other toolkits are offering.
• Moo hasn’t regressed, everything that made me like it a year ago is still good
• Moo still feels like the smoothest and fastest library for effects, pretty much indistinguishable from flash for basic animation/tweening