I have tried to post this on jQuery mailing list/forums system but it
is not posting for whatever reason so maybe some people who have used
either or both can help me out
I have been working with mootools for a bit the past few months and
started to take a look at jQuery too see what the hype is all about
from what i have heard from a co-worker. From what i see, jQuery does
not offer anything that mootools does not. I mean jQuery does have
$().click
and i don't believe Mootools has anything like that, they just have
the:
$().addEvent('click', function(){});
However this is just a shortcut and not a major thing. On thing that
jQuery has is that there are far more scripts however this is just to
the fact that jQuery has been around longer than mootools. However on
the other hand mootools has is a very nice way to create new classes.
All i have to do is:
http://www.apex-wowguild.com/dev/javascript/ajax.js
Now I have been told that jQuery tries to do things more like the OO
method. Well to me the basically thing about OO is being able to
combine members(variables) and methods(functions) into a common
place(class/object). I have tried creating a simple class with jQuery
and it does not work(this code if based off what i was told from these
forums):
var ajax_request = function(options)
{
ajax_options =
{
test: 'test'
};
test = function()
{
alert(this.test);
}
}
var test = new ajax_request();
test.test();
and this code tells me that test() is not a function of test. It
seems that jQuery wants you to incorporate everything into the $()
selector which does not make sense of everything. Being able create
separate object is something that is important to me and jQuery does
not seem to support that.
Another thing that that jQuery says is that is it so small. Well
comparing the full version of mootools(all options selected) to the
full version of jQuery is unfair. In order to get allt he features of
full mootools you would have to add jQuery interface script and
comparing mootools to jQuery&Interface script, mootools is still
smaller.
So why should someone choose jQuery over Mootools or is it really just
a preference thing and and both are basically the same(i see a lot
about jQuery vs prototype but not alot about jQuery vs mootools)
