> jQuery is BY FAR the crappiest Big Thing in circulation right now, I think you've been away from it for a while. jQuery has great browser support and activity. It's also pushing adoption of newer JS features by being modern first in their 2.0 and allowing smaller builds w/ custom builds to boot.
I get that you have a problem with it's API, but its support, activity, community involvement is top notch (they even have TC39 representation). Instead of venting on jQuery to a dead mailing list you could try contributing to MooTools or jQuery to make them better, maybe get MooTools to version bump to support IE11 while you're at it. - JDD On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Sanford Whiteman <[email protected]>wrote: > > The decline of MooTools rests on the MooTools core devs and no one > > else. > > Yep, it is/was principally an internal problem (including the > community as well) but I think you're whitewashing if you think > Microsoft didn't buttress jQuery *in part* because jQ couldn't > possibly compete design-wise with their OO product lines. > > Every .NET dev I know accepts that jQuery must be "good enough" if > Microsoft chose it. Yet jQuery is "bad enough" that it keeps them from > being compelled by native JavaScript and JS developer-focused > frameworks; it keeps them thinking JS is basically what the world > thought it was in 1995. And that belief keeps them away from building > single-page clients against Node.JS, for example. > > Think about Microsoft actively embracing PHP over Python. And I'm a > huge PHP guy, but I don't think that was _solely_ because PHP is the > dominant language of the web; it also protects their products, because > PHP will rarely be compelling to an experienced .NET dev (except maybe > for selected tiny projects). > > Trust me, it's not "Microsoft's fault" that Moo is where it is, but > nothing happens in a vacuum. jQuery is BY FAR the crappiest Big Thing > in circulation right now, and just so happens to be embraced by the > once-leaders in ensuring that crappy Big Things spread far and wide. > Like the conspiracy freaks like to retort, "So you're a coincidence > theorist?" :] > > -- Sandy > > > > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MooTools Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MooTools Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
