That was a little history lesson I enjoyed... Thanks Aaron. [digress] I know to my friends and coworkers I'm somewhat of a MT-snob, but I feel it's for good reason. I completely agree that one should use the tool that helps them get the job done (and hopefully the right way) - I just happen to believe that MT is the right tool 97% of the time. =P I jest. I'm not really a dick about my enthusiasm for MT, but I do enjoy spreading the MT gospel. I think the right approach is to educate others about the advantages (and even disadvantages) of MT and let them decide what's best.
>From what I've seen with this group over the past 3 years, for the most part, people have been super helpful and I'm glad to say I'm a part of the Mootools community. Keep it up, people! Oh, we should create a website: MootoolersAreNice.com - it's available!! =D [/digress] ~Philip On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Aaron Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > Years ago (around 2006) MooTools had a forum hosted on mootools.net. This > forum was originally for people to talk about building the framework as the > framework was still in beta. The people talking there were mostly > experienced JS developers. As the framework grew more popular, users started > showing up asking for help *using *the framework. On a daily basis we'd > get posts to the effect that "Accordion doesn't work" from JS novices. At > first these people were helped but over time a few members grew exasperated > and where less than helpful. As this problem grew worse we moved the forums > to Google groups, moved the developer discussions to a different forum, and > things generally improved. When Piotr built jsfiddle for the community, > things got exponentially more friendly, as now the response to "Accordion > doesn't work" isn't "it does, you're just doing it wrong" is "show me on > jsfiddle and I'll help you fix it." That early 2006-ish reputation is the > one that persists, despite all the friendly people here. I don't think I've > had to moderate a single comment on these boards in the last 4 years or > more. > > -a > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Philip Thompson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Aaron Newton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Simply be better than everyone else.... =D >>>> >>> >>> lulz. the irony. >>> >> >> Actually, I'm more curious, "who/what community" says that Mootoolers are >> snobs? >> >> ~Philip >> >> -- >> http://lonestarlightandsound.com/ >> > > -- http://lonestarlightandsound.com/
