Hi Everyone, I received the green light from MooTools team member Tom Occhino to post this here.
I'm going to be doing a preso at Future of Web Design on how to take advantage of JavaScript libraries for your design. The actual name is: "How to take advantage of jQuery and other JavaScript libraries for your design" Just so you'll know this was the name that Carsonified gave to the topic and I'm trying to get broader coverage instead of it focusing on jQuery solely. I plan on including MooTools, Prototype, YUI & Dojo into this and I want to make sure they all get positive exposure in my talk as well as accurate information. So I'm reaching out to web developers, who originally had a strong focus on the design aspect the web development process, and subsequently embraced a JS library to help them improve their work. Not being versed in MooTools, I'd like to post the following questions to the MT Google group to ensure that I get the most accurate information. I'm hoping I'll get plenty of feedback. What I'd like to know is: 1) Which library (or libraries) did you choose? 2) What led you to use the library (libraries)? 3) How has it improved your work? 4) At which point in the site design & development process do you consider using a JS library? 5) Which features of the specific libraries you selected to do you use regularly? 6) Do you develop to strict HTML/XHTML standards? If so, has your choice of library helped you to continue being standards-compliant or has it hindered your work? If you could elaborate on pros and cons, that would be a huge help. 7) Do you develop with progressive enhancement in mind? If so, do the libraries you use help you with that? 8) In terms of CSS, do you find the libraries meeting your needs or are there limitations that you're finding? 9) How do you leverage the JS libs to affect your use of CSS in your web applications? 10) How quickly were you able to leverage the JS libs to help you in your development? The answers will help me better understand some of the pros and cons of the various JS libs. Also, if there are other areas that I should research, please don't hesitate to mention it. Again, my goal is to help designers understand how JS libs can help them and I'm looking at this from a library agnostic perspective. Rey...
