Archive for December, 2007

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Ajaxian’s annual framework survey is out. Being a Mootools developer, of course my primary interest is in seeing how it stands up.

Looking at the chart on the right here, you can see that it’s #5 on the list, although I’d argue that Scriptaculous isn’t a framework so much as an add-on to Prototype. If you’re using Prototype, you’re likely to use Scriptaculous as your effects interface.

So by that logic, Mootools is doing quite well and growing since last year (it was a write-in candidate not listed as a choice in the survey in 2006, yet still garnered 11% of the vote).

There’s more to this survey if you’re interested. Head over to the Ajaxian post on the topic.

I started working on the update for the Mootorial for Mootools 1.2 today and one of the new pages I’ve added attempts to answer the question: why should I choose Mootools over some other framework?

The page itself is a wiki, so for anyone reading this that represents one of these other frameworks, I invite you to tweak it if I am representing these others poorly. I hope I’m not.

So. Why should you choose Mootools vs. some other framework?