I have to agree with you 100% on this. I would love to see more of mootools, better tutorials, active community etc.. maybe it's time to take the bull by the horns and start doing something?
On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:42:59 AM UTC-4, piotr_cz wrote: > > I though I'll explain, why Joomla 3.0+ is phasing out to jQuery. > > Actually, jQuery hasn't been picked directly. > - Production leadership team decided that modern CMS needs a > responsive front-end framework in it's core and due to some (IMHO > reasonable) criteria Bootstrap was picked. The fact that it utilizes > jQuery was a burden (majority of javascript written in MooTools) > - More UI plugins to choose from > - Designers (not developers) were calling for including jQuery for a > long time. > > I've read few posts here: it's their problem, I'm happy with MooTools. > I understand this point of view, but in my opinion this is short- > sighted. I believe this community is made of very skilled developers > but smaller the community, less driving force, less innovation and > less testers. > > I think we should brainstorm in how and if to move Mootools forward. > What are the upcoming challanges for next few years? What are we > missing? What's not working and what is? > > Some of the challenges for me are: > - mobile devices development > - responsive UI framework > - MVC framework (and sync) > - server-side javascript > > You might say that all of this is possible using Mootools now. Sure. > But I have to dig and search and honestly, if I'd be starting with > Javascript at this moment, maybe I'd pick Sencha or jQuery + backbone > + Bootstrap. > > > I haven't been involved in Mootools community much (no published > plugins in forge, little activity on forum) mostly because I felt that > my code is not good enough and my skills are low comparing to big > fishes. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MooTools Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mootools-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
