Comments on: MooTools Core 1.3 beta 2

By: Sonyl

Sonyl — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:39:43 +0000

Props to everyone on the team! Is there any idea on when a production release will be available?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:40:25 +0000

set(element.set(‘tween’, {…})) - Hmm, is the extra “set” at the beginning a typo?

By: gonchuki

gonchuki — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:53:23 +0000

@nicolas: you could always do that using .set but with a twist: .set returns the element, so you have to chain a .tween/.fade or whatever else you need instead of chaining the .start method of Fx.

By: Arian

Arian — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:46:57 +0000

Little addition how you can build your MooTools.

Make sure you’ve got git installed
$ git clone http://github.com/mootools/mootools-core.git
$ git submodule update —init
$ php build > mootools-core.js

Cool you mentioned me in the blogpost! You could view the docs on http://www.aryweb.nl/projects/MooDocs/ as well!

By: fabiomcosta

fabiomcosta — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:34:35 +0000

@Nicolas, you can easily do e.set('tween', opt).get('tween').start();

This makes getters and setters more consistent on the hole mootools API.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:27:06 +0000

I love MooTools, but sadly JQuery (1.4.2), Prototype (1.6.1/1.7 RC2), Dojo 1.4.3, YUI 3.1.0 and DOMAssistant (2.8) are still faster in the SlickSpeed Selectors Test. :(

By: cpojer

cpojer — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:54:47 +0000

As said in the blog post we are providing “Generics”, that means that you can now use Object.map(myObject, fn) instead of myHash.map(fn). We are not adding methods on the Object prototype but on Object itself. This solution is much cleaner than Hash.

By: TBB

TBB — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:05:41 +0000

"we have added Object.js which brings you all the Hash methods as generics"

But wasn't extending the Object Prototype always a big no-no?

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:04:55 +0000

I was mostly using get because I could tune the tween options and then chain the call with some start. e.get('tween', opt).start(); I guess that can't be done with set, right?

Besides that things are looking really cool! Congrats :)

By: gonchuki

gonchuki — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:12:00 +0000

lol, I never imagined that you could use .get to set those element options, I always used .set I will give beta 2 a ride on my sites and check on the improvements ;) great job guys!

By: Daniel15

Daniel15 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:10:44 +0000

Yay! I love MooTools :D