Thanks so much for your detailed reply Eric and thank you for the resources.
Would it be silly to use both ? On 12/28/06, Eric Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Prototype is also well-documented. Just not by Sam Stevenson himself. Check out these great resources, if you haven't already. http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html http://prototypedoc.com/ http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Prototype I've never used Mootools for anything other than experimentation, but Mootools has a different overall design focus than prototype.js. It's such a difference in design that I don't think it's possible to quantify a 'better' library. Mootools is filling a more 'Swiss-Army Knife' approach to library design. They are providing a number of smaller components to act upon numerous concepts (Transitions, Accordions, Ajax, etc). Prototype has more of a 'Improve The Javascript Language' approach. You don't see any accordion widgets inside prototype proper, as that function should be served by a different library or framework. Prototype is just trying to provide a normalization platform from which to build such widgets. Now, looking through the code of Mootools, it does seem like they are following good development practices and their code is fairly thorough and looks very clean. I suspect that it would be a pleasure to work with. At this point, my advice to you is for you to decide what it is you need. If you want accordion widgets and floating tool-tips, maybe Mootools is the best choice for you. If you're like me and you want to write your own stuff and just have Prototype serve as a buffer between you and a staggering amount of browser differences, Prototype will serve you well. If you need that clever stuff and still want prototype, scriptaculous is a great prototype extension framework to provide all of that to you. And if you're someone who really doesn't care about working with Javascript and you just want to type a few lines of code and have things magically happen for you, maybe you'd be interested in OpenRICO. I personally don't care for it but only because it never meets my specific design needs. The library itself isn't half bad and they have a decent sized community behind it. OpenRICO is another prototype-based library and provides Accordion widgets and Magic Tables and stuff like that. Just find whatever works for you and be happy with it... :D Another great Prototype resource that you've already found is this google group. We frequently are helping people (like you) with Prototype and Scriptaculous-based problems and we are a fairly high-volume list. If you have a problem and you post it here, you can generally expect a fairly swift and extremely thorough response. Good luck! -E On 12/28/06, Stripe-man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys... I am just getting started with Prototype and am likeing it, but > im a newb all the way... > So i was hoping you all could share your expereinces insight on these two > prodoucts... > MooTools and Prototype. Id love to see several to many opinions/facts > between them. > > Google does not return any satisfactory results on this subject. > > Thanks sooo much for your time > > Can anyone list any differences or > Pros/Cons/Advantages/Disadvantages between: > > Prototype > http://prototype.conio.net/ > > and > > Mootools > http://mootools.net/download > > > From what i see: > 1. Both seem to be OO. > 2. Mootools is very well documented. > > > > > -- Eric Ryan Harrison >
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