[jQuery] MooTools $events expando workaround

[Rey Bango]

There was a recent flurry of emails on the list discussing a conflict 
with the use of MooTools in conjunction with jQuery. When MooTools 
released v1.1, they renamed their events expando to $events, thus 
conflicting instantly with jQuery.

Well, Brazilian developer Alexandre Magno 
(http://blog.alexandremagno.net/) came up with a novel and quite simple 
solution to get around this issue; rename the $event expando in Mootools!

"I found a solution that works perfectly. Im the live example that we 
need sometimes to use the both frameworks. Im develop all my projects in 
jQuery, cause I learn more easily and feel more comfotable with it. 
Nothing to do with Mootools, with is a beatiful framework too... But I 
need the fancy upload to work and is just possible with Mootools, I make 
everything, but doesnt work because the conflict with the variable 
$event. I solve this issue by getting the mootools download with no 
compression, use a software like aptana, dreamweaver, or even notepad to 
replace all ocurrences of $event to $event2 for example, and compress 
the libraty after it. This way, the two frameworks works perfectly, 
since the use of jquery with noConflit its configured. I hope this works 
and soon I will develop this fancy upload for jquery to dont have to use 
both. Its a shame for the mootools team wait to Jquery solve this 
problem that noboby its blame... its just convention... why just simple 
replace $event for $mootoolsEvent or $mooEvent for example??? Somethimes 
its necessary use both, no doubt..""

This was posted in the MooTools forum in response to a post where John & 
  I were trying to resolve an integration problem for a MooTools user 
who wanted to use MooTools and jQuery together. We realize that its 
unrealistic to expect that developers are going to use just one library 
and the team goes to great lengths to ensure some level of 
interoperability between other libraries via noConflict(). In jQuery 
v1.2, we take that a step further by allowing the renaming of the events 
expando to whatever you would like, thus avoiding any conflict.

While this was not a bug in jQuery, we feel strongly about allowing 
developers to leverage the tools that they need to do their work and we 
never want jQuery to be a bottleneck.

Thank you John & the jQuery team for continuing to make jQuery such a 
flexible solution and thank you Alexandre for expanding jQuery's reach 
to Brazil and offering up this great workaround.

Rey...