Most of the changes in 1.3 are 'under the hood'. There's a lot of reorganization and some new abstractions, but nothing that the user would ever notice; no new animations or widgets or anything like that. The changes make it easier for us to write MooTools itself, and some of the abstractions will be useful to developers, but they aren't things you couldn't write yourself if you found you needed them before hand.
There are some new features. For instance, event delegation will be in -core and it will support all events (the MooTools More plugin doesn't support focus and blur events, for example). There's also a new, better, faster selector engine, but you aren't likely to really miss its features if you start now (though there are some nice ones). On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:45 AM, duclet <[email protected]> wrote: > Thats fine. I was more curious on what some of the new features would > be. I rather not start coding something, finish it, one week later, > new version is released with exact feature I wanted. Yes, I am lazy in > that regard I suppose. > > On Feb 24, 10:02 am, Christoph Pojer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We are trying to provide as much compatibility as possible. In cases > > where it is not posible we will provide a detailed guide on how to > > update your application. You can safely start with 1.2 :) > > > > On Feb 24, 4:56 am, ibolmo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > By definition I wouldn't expect 2.0 to be 100% compatible with 1.3 > > > even with a compatibility layer. It's a major revision, and there > > > could be breaking changes. > > > > > I wouldn't wait for 2.0, though. You should code for 1.2 if your > > > deadline is soon, or 1.3 is you're willing to follow development -- > > > but don't be surprised if there's bugs. > > > > > On Feb 23, 1:26 pm, Aaron Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > 1.3 will be 100% backwards compatible with 1.2. So will 2.0. You can > start > > > > your rewrite now. > > > > > > 1.3 actually doesn't change a lot of the API. The changes it does > make are, > > > > again, backwards compatible. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:30 AM, duclet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So I have seen some mentioning of MooTools 1.3 and even 2.0 and > just > > > > > wanted to know if there is some sort of estimate on when it might > be > > > > > released? Currently my company is using Prototype and we are > thinking > > > > > about a complete rewrite using MooTools and it would be nice to > know > > > > > so we can plan accordingly. >
