Bearfruit

Well now.. I haven’t tried JQuery, but I before I chose Mootools I looked at all the demos available for both JQuery and Mootools. For all JQuery apparently having better documentation, their demos weren’t particularly exciting. And in general, Mootools cross-browser compatibility seemed better to me when testing the demos.

I’ve been working with Mootools now for about a year and it was tough to learn. The documentation isn’t bad though.. it’s searchable, concise and clear and has good examples.

The forum is non-existent.. seems to have been tanked. The IRC channel is tricky to navigate, I did have to dance a pretty dance to get any kind of help at all… but patience paid off and trying something and posting the code seems to be the way to get attention. They don’t have patience for noobs though. I think the attitude is that the channel is intended for people who know what they’re doing, which is fair enough, but with the forums closed there doesn’t seem to be any entry point now for noobs.

Overall I love Mootools and hate the thought of having to learn another framework.