Comments on: Mootools vs Script.aculo.us

By: hayden

hayden — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:43:57 +0000

MooTools isn’t THAT hard to figure out and is by far a better well built set of tools.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:33:32 +0000

Don’t forget the mootorial:

http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/mootorial

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:31:37 +0000

Those demos have a link to “doc references” which opens a list of links to the documentation, showing all the relevant docs for that demo. You can also see the .js source, .html markup and .css for that specific demo. That’s what I like about Moo’s docs is the friendly usage demo page.

For example, the Chain demo uses a delay at one point and that is listed in the docs:

6. Native/Function.js#Function.delay

Guess it’s really just a matter of preference. I think Koa might even throw JQuery into the mix as better than both to be honest. You have a lot of great options, that’s for sure

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:20:06 +0000

Moo’s documentation looks nice, but actually figuring out how to use it’s methods is no where near as straightforward as prototypes and scripts. At least that’s how it reads to me. For instance, I’ve never heard of chaining (that demo was tight) and when I went to find where that exists in the docs, I couldn’t find it. Maybe it’s a personal thing, but I spend may more time pecking through mootools to find stuff.

The “nearly identical” though means that I can’t just count on everything that’s in prototype being in it. For instance, they fire way less events for ajax requests. And compare how they talk about identical fundamental things:

http://docs.mootools.net/Native/Element.js#$

http://www.prototypejs.org/api/utility/dollar

Prototype holds my hand and walks me through it

Mootools package creation is the shit and was why I was pumped to try it in the first place.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:26:24 +0000

Personally, “moo” pwns “lous”. And their implementation of prototype is nearly identical (“Some functions are inspired by those found in prototype.js http://prototype.conio.net/ © 2005 Sam Stephenson sam [at] conio [dot] net, MIT-style license”). Not sure what you mean about documentation…moo’s is sick:

http://docs.mootools.net/Effects/Fx-Transitions.js

Also, does scriptaculous have chaining? I don’t remember it.

http://demos.mootools.net/Chain

Also:

http://docs.mootools.net/Native/Function.js#Function.delay

With their site design and the package creation (where you can select which functionality you want and have it compressed)…Moo, ftw.