Thomas spoke with me because I work at Microsoft. As he mentioned, I've done my best to escalate it as far as possible and convince them to allow developers to use any libraries but didn't receive any positive feedback other than redirect people to the FAQ.
Additionally, while I am a member of the jQuery project team, I'm very much against the exclusion of other libs and have made my opinion very clear internally at Microsoft. I find it silly to include jQuery & Prototype but not allow other libs. It doesn't make sense to me. It's not a contest that I'm involved with so coming in after the fact has made it impossible to change the direction. With that said, I have some ideas that I'd like to move on under a Microsoft project that I do have control over which is the Script Junkie website, of which Thomas himself will be contributing to shortly. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/default.aspx) I'll keep you guys posted. And yes, give the 1kJS contest a go. Rey On Aug 10, 5:37 am, Thomas Aylott <[email protected]> wrote: > My guess is that they wanted jQuery support for beginners but didn’t want to > make it a jQuery contest to they added Prototype as the token non-jQuery > framework. > > I’ve talked to a number of people about it (some who are Microsoft employees). > They couldn’t really share any specifics. But I’m told that those who are > against this move have escalated it as far as possible with no better answer > than what is listed in the FAQ: > > http://10k.aneventapart.com/Faqs > > > 1. Why only 3 libraries (jQuery, Prototype, and TypeKit)? > > Initially, we were not planning to allow libraries at all. However, to > > encourage more beginners and reflect modern Web development practices, we > > decided to allow three very popular libraries. We still want to keep things > > simple, though, which is why we're keeping the list very small. > > IMHO a js contest should allow all frameworks or none. > > 1kJS is looking very interesting. > > — Tom Aylott – SubtleGradient – MooTools — > > On Aug 10, 2010, at 2:39 AM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > > > > > Hello Ian, > > > Is there any specific reason why Mootools is not allowed for this contest? > > > Regards > > Rajeev J Sebastian
