Developers has to convince designers / business people that mootools is the way to go. And for this the best way is to show its excellence and large user base. I know because I "pushed" mootools for some big projects in my company. And they always ask: why use mootools when even MS uses JQuery? Then I have to show them same fancy effects and say "it is easier/better then JQ".
Apache don't need to market itself because everybody knows it is best. Mootools doesn't have this position. And less developers means less code to reuse, less recognition, which means less developers, and so on. Once Mootools has fame for its animations. Now we should pin some points where MooTools shines and market it with this in mind. Maybe we should work with Joomla people, they are probably the largest group of mootools users out there... On Sep 28, 9:00 am, Barry van Oudtshoorn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Barry van Oudtshoornwww.barryvan.com.au > > Not sent from my Apple πPhone.
