On 28/09/11 14:33, Robert wrote:
But webservers are for geeks and js frameworks are (in many cases)
also for designers.
Hmm, I think that in the case of MooTools, the former is far and away
the larger target demographic. Yes, you can achieve fancy effects in
MooTools; you can do just about anything in MooTools that you can in
jQuery. The difference, and what I believe the website should promote,
is that MooTools is about writing code.
I think that generally speaking, people perceive the toolkits something
along these lines:
jQuery: quick, easy, fancy; it lets you manipulate the DOM and layer
effects onto existing documents.
YUI, Dojo: big frameworks for developing apps; the "enterprise" solution
(ugh).
MooTools: All and none of the above.
(Yes, there are more frameworks. No, I'm not going to list them. :P)
MooTools is not, to my mind, a framework to facilitate DOM manipulations
(although it does do that). Neither is it a UI toolkit (although you can
build/find one using it). MooTools is to JavaScript what a blowtorch is
to a crème brulée: the tool that makes it exceptional, rather than just
great.
I think that MooTools should be targeted primarily at developers, but
with a note to the effect that "Yes, it does X/Y/Z, too -- and well!"
Looking at the people who post to this mailing list, they're generally
developing fairly large-scale sites/apps using MooTools. In my opinion,
these people should be the target.
- Barry
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