- posted 2 years ago
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I've been using jQuery regularly for my new job now for about 3 weeks or so. I've used the selectors, event handling, short cuts/handlers, animations, plugins etc. Nothing too fancy, but in general, a descent exposure. I'd like to compare it with Mootools. And while I do rock a Mootools skin on my phone, I'm going to try and remain as objective as subjectively possible. I'm going to try and stay positive about the differences and give use-cases for using either.
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This isn't a really important post, it's just something I think need's to be expressed and accepted; it must be accepted. Mootools, YUI, jQuery, Dojo etc. are great. They help a person with very tedious javascript techniques, speed up your applications, and make the UX much richer.
But they are not frameworks. I know this probably just seems like a semantics issue, but I want to make it clear that they are not frameworks, they are libraries. From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/framework
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