Simply put: JQuery did not exist at the time as a viable alternative, and Dirk, who wrote the templates, just was more familiar with Mootools. Since then, nobody has cared enough to change the default template to use anything else (despite several people promising that they'd contribute a new default template ;-).
(JQuery is very popular these days - too popular even; at work we're often interviewing people who claim to know Javascript but when we ask them to make a really simple effect *without* JQuery they get all confused and teary-eyed.) /Janne On Jan 6, 2014, at 07:40 , Ichiro Furusato <ichiro.furus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering what the history of the project's use of Mootools is, > i.e., why it's using Mootools rather than jQuery? On almost all of our own > projects (including some done for clients) we're using jQuery, and in a > plugin I'm working on right now I realised that there are conflicts with > using > both Mootools and jQuery on the same page (resolvable but not pretty). > > I'm under the impression that jQuery adoption is enormously more widespread > than Mootools, and with the availability of jQuery sub-projects such as > jQuery > UI it would seem to have some significant advantages over Mootools. > > Is there any reason why (apart from the work of making the changes) the > JSPWiki project couldn't switch over to jQuery? Is this because of one of > the editors, or some other reason? > > Thanks for any info. > > Ichiro
