Though their theories on javascript coding differ, javascript framework developers keep a tight lip when it comes to commenting on other frameworks. When another framework is brought up, the developer usually gives generic responses like “they’re doing good work” or “they’ve got a unique approach.” Anything outside of this response seems to gain unwanted attention, which is exactly what MooTools’ Olmo did last week.

Here’s the sequence of events that led to his eventual departure from MooTools:

1. Olmo gave a presentation about MooTools in which he said some inflamatory comments about the jQuery framework and posted it on the official MooTools Blog. The blog post has been taken down but you can view the video below.

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We hope that it’s fairly obvious to a web user that an input box followed by a search icon symbolizes a search box. Unfortunately, making assumptions on the web isn’t a luxury that web developers have. One way to make your search bar more obvious is to place some default text in the input box.

I’ve been following the progress of MooTools 1.2 for months and it looks as though we’ll see the next version relatively soon. As excited for the next version as I am? Here a few links to get you up to date on the project’s status:

What’s New in 1.2 — http://dev.mootools.net/wiki/whatsNew/1.2

MooTools Timeline — http://dev.mootools.net/timeline

MooTools Roadmap — http://dev.mootools.net/roadmap

MooTools – Trunk Download — http://mootools.net/download/trunk

Trolling through the MooTools forums, I stumbled on a post by DigiMute. DigiMute has automated complete MooTools documentation in PDF format using PHP and FPDF . If you hate referring to the MooTools website every time you need API help, download the MooTools documentation in PDF format!

http://www.digimute.com/index.php?page=mootoolspdf

Well, not really. But the guys at Ajaxian forgot to include MooTools in a javascript framework survey, someone claimed to post as a MooTools dev, flamed everybody, the REAL MooTools devs posted, and people got upset.

Check it out!