JQuery 1.4, MooTools 1.2 Compared (bit.ly)

I == Ryan Florence

I recently read jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know over at Nettuts and thought it would be interesting to compare the features of MooTools 1.2 to the new features in jQuery 1.4, released 18 months later.

I didn’t try hard to sound unbiased in this article. I prefer MooTools and it’s evident in the things I notice about jQuery when viewed through my biased eyes. However, please don’t read this as though I’m trying to convince you to switch from jQuery to Mootools, or that jQuery is inferior, or assume that you browse the web with IE, use Windows, drive a Ford, and drink Pepsi. I’m just sharing my thoughts as a mootools developer (I do use jquery on inherted projects)

Anyway, I’ve included a working code snippet for each feature using jsfiddle, save a few, so that you can goof with the code and see how awesome some of these new features in jQuery are, and how awesome some have always been in MooTools. Some of the embedded shells are acting funny so you may need to click the pencil button to really see what’s going on.

Enjoy!