Getting started with any type of framework can be an intimidating experience. To help, this week we have an in depth tutorial and long screencast to provide a crash-course for this popular JavaScript library. With so much focus on jQuery, it's easy to forget that Mootools is an equally powerful library with a huge following. Join today!
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )aGS October 14th
I’m first… hehe
( )leonardo October 15th
damn when people will grow mentally and stop this stupid ” I am First ”
( )Shane October 17th
Is there a Wordpress plugin that can strip out such comments?
BILL October 14th
Mootools > jQuery
( )Matt Vickers October 14th
Lol, no need to start a framework war
Honestly, both frameworks have their own pros and cons, Mootools is just what I chose to learn.
( )Laneth October 14th
Silly me, being so single focused in my desire to learn something new. Thanks for providing me with an alternative area of study!
( )rborn October 14th
What’s the second screenshot? I mean what software? thanks
( )Matt Vickers October 14th
Thats Coda.
http://www.panic.com/coda/
( )name October 14th
What editor is that second screenshot of?
( )Matt Vickers October 14th
I don’t want to be a comment spammer so here it is.
Thats Coda.
http://www.panic.com/coda/
Also, thanks for watching the tutorial!
( )w1sh October 15th
Not trying to start a frameworks war, but why did you choose Mootools personally? *curious*
( )Matt Vickers October 15th
Well i actually started with Prototype and Scriptaculous. I had then moved over to Mootools and became very comfortable with it.
By the time I found out about jQuery I really didn’t feel like moving over to another framework, so I just stuck with Mootools.
( )Nori Silverrage October 15th
Yeah I feel the same way except I started with jQuery and don’t feel like learning Mootools until I come against something that jQuery can’t do (my scripts aren’t super advanced so I don’t know when or if that will happen).
jem October 15th
Huge mootools fan, great to see this.
I use to be very biased towards other frameworks because of my mootools “upbringing”–but recently I have started using jQuery per certain project restraints, and its not as painful as I’d thought it would be. I will say, mootools has way more native methods that I find tough to work without.
But I’m a developer at heart, and I write most all of my mootools code from scratch.
( )James October 16th
Thanks for this! I’ve been wanting to look at mootools for a while and this should give me a kick start.
At the minute I use jQuery but I’m pretty much a novice at that too so I’d love to see a similar thing done with that aswell.
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