A question I often get asked is whether Byng uses the jQuery JavaScript library and another popular follow up question is why not. Source of much self reflection and questioning I often found myself wondering why I don't feel at home with jQuery as much as Mootools. That is until I read an excellent blog post on Clientcide explaining some of the theory behind Mootools.

Without summarising the article (which makes some generic points applicable to many JS frameworks) several key points really stuck out and apply aptly to Byng's company philosophy on software development.

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Probably the most important part of that post is that link to a decent MooTools date picker (or calendar) as this has been so lacking. Enter (weird name) MonkeyPhysics who has developed a slick object orientated component.

Until the MooTools Forge materialises there are a handful of plugin sites around to find your widget: http://www.esteak.net, http://www.clientcide.com or http://www.mooforum.net

At Byng Systems we have our very own MooTools repository but I'm afraid until the day arises that is not under GPL and remains under lock and key (hint: or on our public web applications!).

Back to the Aptana workbench for some more web application development on our new product, Contractiva...

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Tagged with : javascript, mootools, jquery, javascript