What are the reasons that make jQuery more popular than MooTools?
9th January 2011
My answer to What are the reasons that make jQuery more popular than MooTools? on Quora
MooTools is the only major JavaScript library that still thinks extending the prototype of built-in JavaScript objects is a good idea.
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http://www.nczonline.net/blog/20...
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