i've been watching this back-and-forth for over a week now.. if you spent as much time writing code as you did bitching about the mootools team you would probably have everything you need by now...
i simply cannot agree that the change to mootools 1.2 screwed anybody over. I have converted most of the classes my company had written in mootools 1.11 to mootools 1.2 and it wasn't that huge of a thing, it was like maybe three small items per class. you seem like a smart business man, and it appears you have found a potential market.. why not provide the support you are requesting. not sure how anyone would expect the 8 people who contribute to the core library capable of doing that and writing all the code and having full time jobs... -gregory On Oct 6, 6:39 am, MX3Design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you that have followed recent threads I would like to > clearly state that I recognise the amount of effort, energy and hard > work that has gone into MT development and for the record I've stated > this before both in the old forums and in this usergroup... > > From my perspective when 1.2 was released it was so disappointing. I > had written many scripts in previous versions and developed complete > applications based upon the framework. To suddenly find that all of > this code would have to be rewritten in order to use the new build was > a complete shock. It meant that my business could no longer continue > to use MT as it's was simply not commercially viable to update and > redevelop countless sites and scripts. (and no the backward > compatibility layer didn't work!) > > There seems to be an unofficial consensus of opinion that many MT > users are no more than 'script kiddies' looking for a quick cut & > paste snippet. Whilst to some extent this may be the case there is > also a large body of professional designers and developers who rely > heavily upon pre-coding or outsourced development. Think about what > knowledge the average designer needs: xhtml, xml, javascript, php, > mySQL, actionscript, css etc etc it is very difficult to be an expert > in all these fields and find time to develop which is why a framework > provides such a useful platform, which brings me on to my main point. > > There must be a huge market for a framework which would simplify and > give designers an easy method to integrate functions into their web > applications. A framework which provides well documented examples, and > one which makes it ridiculously easy to use. A framework which > provides a high level of support and one which is helpful and > welcoming. There's no shame in providing what people need, you're not > going to lose face, quite the opposite. In my experience people really > appreciate help, especially when they're approaching a new area of > knowledge, we all started at the same place but it's all too easy to > forget that. > > Why not charge a licence fee and give people what they both need and > want? I would certainly pay (provided there was backward > compatibility!) The business model that EllisLabs and in particular > Expression Engine have adopted works extremely well, they provide a > good product, a user forum with excellent support, a repository and > good documentation. Their users provide plugins, extensions and > support to each other, it's a happy, helpful and unified community and > the developers are making money...
