So, you're saying we should go back and call it *My Object Oriented
Tools*instead of the current "abbreviation".

I wouldn't mind if the logo had the definition of "moo" underneath.

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Oskar Krawczyk
http://nouincolor.com


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:53 PM, TimeImp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another thing to think about is the name of the actual JS framework/
> library.
> Eg: a FW/Lib named BigDoor will probably be more remembered than
> something like SmallHandle because when people think door, they think
> wood, timber, building, moving thing. But SmallHandle could mean a
> handle for a door, a ladder or something completely unrelated.
> In this way, I believe that more people are using jQuery because of
> this thinking: it has the word QUERY in there, and that is often
> associated by programming-illiterate people as computer code.
> But mootools [as cool as it sounds] does not have this direct link to
> computer programming. To a person who programs all manner of non-web-
> related things, mootools, when first proposed to them, may sound far-
> fetched and, in some ways, stupid and immature [the name, not the
> framework/library].
>
> It might even cause them to think of Cows or Milk instead of JS code
> and simplifying your life.
>
> So theres a POV from someone who advertises mootools at the workplace
> but gets funny looks until an explanation is told.
>

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