Mootools 1.2 finally released!

June 10th, 2008 in web development  |  3 Comments

Mootools 1.2 has been released today, along with a fancy site redesign. But has it kept to its roots?

I thought Mootools was getting a bit bloated with core functions like Array.rgbToHex(), and the file size has grown from 1.11 to 1.2, but surprisingly, it’s smaller than jQuery. Here’s a rundown of file sizes for popular js libraries (uncompressed):

  • Mootools: 90kb
  • jQuery: 97kb
  • Prototype: 123kb

But does file size matter much now that Google is hosting js libraries? Google does all the work of gzipping them and everything. Sure opens up our options if everyone starts using it.

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3 Responses to “Mootools 1.2 finally released!”

  1. Louis

    June 10th, 2008 at 4:40 pm | reply

    Size does matter, but a library should be rich, should contain a lot of powerful functions.

    What Mootools needs is something like this.

  2. jack

    September 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 am | reply

    Hello - I have been unable to get jibberbook to work with mootools 1.2.

    does it, or are there tweaks I have to make?

    thanks so much,
    jack

  3. Chris

    September 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am | reply

    jack,

    JibberBook isn’t compatible with Mootools 1.2, but it shouldn’t be too hard to tweak it since there really isn’t that much js to tweak.

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