A New Name for MooTools
Written By Valerio Proietti, on Wednesday, April 1st 2009, 12:00amUPDATE: Sincere thanks to all of you who actually believed this was real news! April Fools’ wouldn’t be as much fun without you.
The MooTools project has been around for quite some time now. We’ve seen a few releases, some great, some less great (1.0). We’ve coded tons of plug-ins, scripts, websites, applications and desktop applications using our beloved MooTools. However, the community is really starting to get tired, tired of this project name. I mean, seriously, we’re really fed up with cows. We even tried to “sell” it as My Object Oriented Tools, but we all know that’s a stretch, and a pretty bad one.
Therefore, I officially announce to the world that from now on MooTools will be known as jTools. This is the totally logical choice for our new name, since you know, the j stands for JavaScript, and well, MooTools is written in JavaScript. It’s so obvious I can’t really understand why everyone doesn’t just prepend j into their JavaScript project name. Anyways, I hope you’ll like it, as this new name is very likely to stick around pretty much forever! On another note, we are also renaming MooTools More to jMore, MooTools Core to jCore and Aaron is renaming Clientcide to jCide.
Also, we’re going to remove internet explorer 6 support from in next minor version of jTools. I wish I could tell you more about this decision, but it’s far less important than the groundbreaking name change, so I’ll leave it for another day.
Cheers!
April 1st, 2009 at 12:08 am
Good one! Happy April Fools ;)
April 1st, 2009 at 12:15 am
Almost had me on that until you got the jTools part and I just thought “oh, I get it”…
April 1st, 2009 at 12:25 am
Caramba ! I’ve loose my jMind ! No really, I thanks you a lot for all your stuff, it really changes my web developer days ! Long life to jTools :-p
April 1st, 2009 at 12:28 am
Here we go… ^___^U
April 1st, 2009 at 12:47 am
Knew exactly what was up the moment I saw the title, but still found it pretty amusing. Good job, guys. ;)
April 1st, 2009 at 12:59 am
For one second you got me! Awwwr
April 1st, 2009 at 1:00 am
Damn it, it’s 2am in the morning here in Montreal. You had me there for a good 10 seconds!
April 1st, 2009 at 1:16 am
I hope that does not affect the name change in the code, it would be a pity
April 1st, 2009 at 1:32 am
Ups I’ve thought until I realized that today is April 1 :-)
April 1st, 2009 at 1:33 am
Okay you got me too for a sac ;) Happy AF! :D
April 1st, 2009 at 1:33 am
Does this mean we should stop drinking milk?
April 1st, 2009 at 2:11 am
For me MooTools was perfect! Non conventional and not anonymous. Maybe someone can think of jTools as a tool for jQuery…
Anyway…… jTools you are welcome.
bye
April 1st, 2009 at 2:18 am
I had a hunch from reading the title.. nice. jTools ftw!
April 1st, 2009 at 2:37 am
The new logo is so awesome, it deserves a double “j” – go JJTools!
April 1st, 2009 at 2:54 am
This is the right decision, now it’s time for JQuery to became MooQuery :-D
April 1st, 2009 at 3:02 am
Ha! you had me at ‘be a javascript hero’
April 1st, 2009 at 3:51 am
hahaha
April 1st, 2009 at 4:10 am
Very cool name, it looks like jQuery ;-)
April 1st, 2009 at 4:43 am
lol @ the ie6 dig thrown in at the end for good measure :)
April 1st, 2009 at 4:43 am
I really love it, looks a lot more like real JavaScript. Every library should have at least one “J” in its name, otherwise people will not recognize it as JavaScript library.
jTools for heroes!
April 1st, 2009 at 5:29 am
There will also be iMoo / new touch phone from jTools team / 666 times better than iPhone.
April 1st, 2009 at 6:05 am
haha :) But stopping support of ie6 should be serious!!
April 1st, 2009 at 6:48 am
If I didn’t get one of these earlier you’d give me a heart attack! :)
April 1st, 2009 at 7:32 am
Hahaha. So fed up with cows. Hilarious. jTools FTW
April 1st, 2009 at 7:56 am
Huh, thought the “j” stood for jQuery (meaning you weren’t going to be using MooTools anymore. While it wasn’t really funny, I applaud you for your effort.
April 1st, 2009 at 8:02 am
I’ve been trying to push this through for quite a while guys — you’re welcome!
April 1st, 2009 at 9:13 am
This is the best you could come up with?
Lame.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:25 am
it took me hours….. :D :D :D
April 1st, 2009 at 9:41 am
Will there bea special version vor jPril’s fools?:-)
April 1st, 2009 at 9:45 am
I think the name is to similar to “jQuery”, but it is a nice idea to create a new Name with a “j”, but this one is not the right one, i think.
The sentence with the IE6 is a Joke? Or not?
April 1st, 2009 at 11:08 am
If I am a javascript, I have to save the cheerleader, I have to save the world!
I wanna be a JS hero for sure!
April 1st, 2009 at 11:13 am
lolled a lot at the IE6 part and that the name change was more important.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:15 am
nooooooooooooo!!! don’t drop IE6 support! it’s the best browser ever!
plz sign the petition — http://www.saveie6.com/
kthxbai.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am
@Oskar: JJTools. Nice. It’s tagline can be “It’s dy-no-mite!”
http://www.dynomitejj.com/front.html
April 1st, 2009 at 11:59 am
Me gustaba más MooTools, no será fácil jTools reemplace a MooTools, además hay muchos plugins que llevan el prefijo “moo” para identificarse que se usan con la librería mootools, como mooRainbow, mooTree, mooMarquee, mooMonth, etc.
En todo caso me gusta más jMoo o jMoot.
saveie6.com? es una broma?
April 1st, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I would have went with mooQuery personally!
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
For a couple of seconds I thought: they’re crazy… :) I’m Italian, and I didn’t know that in english you said April Fools’, we say “pesce d’aprile”, “april’s fish” I don’t know why :) , maybe fish are fools.. but not our great Crazy Cow :) thank you guys for all of you’re doing Nunzio
April 7th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
that was good one lol