Comments on: jQuery vs MooTools, MooTools vs jQuery

By: Aaron N.

Aaron N. — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:18:32 +0000

@nick, oddly, it was the live comment preview that was breaking the anchor builder (which took me quite a while to figure out!). Thanks. it’s fixed.

By: Nick G

Nick G — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:23:30 +0000

Love the live comment preview, but the anchor builder isn’t loading it’s background/images (FFox3.0.10)

By: Nick G

Nick G — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:20:41 +0000

Excellent.

I’ve been using mootools since moo.fx, jquery was fairly dubious back then.

I thought I’d mention the Wikipedia article on mootools.
It warns of;
. “…needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications.”
. “…may contain improper references to self-published sources.”
. “…insufficient context…”

But then again I did always like mootools “all-we-care-about-is-javascript” attitude :)

Cheers!

By: Markus Muetschard

Markus Muetschard — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:59:06 +0000

Excellent article: honest, open minded overview and comparison. Thanks a lot.

By: Mani Tadayon

Mani Tadayon — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:24:03 +0000

Great article. I like that you’re trying to make an honest comparison, rather than proselytize Mootools.

One issue that I think you overlooked was that JS frameworks are seldom used in a vacuum. I think jQuery’s community has done a lot more to ease integration of jQuery with frameworks like rails. (Obviously, Prototype/Scriptaculous are great in this regard as well.)

I see many projects using Rails with jQuery, but I haven’t seen much of mootools/rails integration. There’s a mootools on rails project, but it’s not actively maintained:

http://github.com/pointcom/mootools-on-rails/tree/master

I’d love to see something like CodeOfficer’s js-data-helper to allow seamless rails integration with mootools:

http://github.com/CodeOfficer/js-data-helper/tree/master

By: Hazel Q.

Hazel Q. — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:42:55 +0000

Thanks for the post and the JQuery vs Mootols site, it will surely help me understand both frameworks better :)

By: PR

PR — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:54:28 +0000

JQuery works great in iphone :D

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:28:32 +0000

The most unbiased comparison is a source code hoedown between libraries:

http://ajax.wikispaces.com/functional_comparison

By: deef

deef — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:31:47 +0000

Very interesting Aaron, thank you for all this info!

By: Alexandr

Alexandr — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:04:05 +0000

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