Hi, I've been a fan of Mootools for quite a while now, but I've got a project coming up very soon that must be done in jQuery - can anyone point me to any tutorials or ideally a cheat sheet that can help me learn the differences between Mootools and jQuery? Any info/tuts/blog posts on switching from Mootools over to jQuery would be greatly appreciated - I need to learn it fast!
(of course, I'm going to hammer the jQuery site docs etc and use good old google, but I just thought someone here might be able to help me out as I'm in a real hurry!) Any assistance appreciated. (I make the following comments without really knowing much about jQuery, so I apologise if I'm mis-informed - if anyone feels like putting me straight - then please do so) I've been using Mootools for quite a while now, and I feel pretty confident coding with it. When I initially evaluated the major js frameworks (over a year ago now) it was a very close call for me between Mootools and jQuery. I went with Mootools for a number of reasons -- like the modularity of the core, smaller file size and faster performance for effects -- though I appreciate that things have changed since then and these may no longer apply. >From what I can see jQuery looks a little bit more straightforward to code, although it seems to me that Mootools does more "out of the box" - a lot of stuff I can write in Mootools in a few lines of code (using the core) seems to require additional classes or plug ins with jQuery - is that a fair statement? There's no doubt jQuery is WAY more widely used and is being more actively developed (which counts for a lot, of course), so I'm wondering if I should switch permanently. I'm sure this has been debated widely and vigorously, but at the current time (i.e. current version of jQuery vs Mootools 1.2.1) - what are the main differences between them? Are there any significant things that jQuery can't do? Thanks in advance for any assistance and comment.
