Joomla 1.5 to include MooTools (NOT AJAX!)

Judging by the latest logs from the SVN repository, Joomla 1.5 will include MooTools in its 1.5 release… Joomla 1.5, revision 6400 (a milestone in the making) has the following log entry: “JavaScript conversion to Mootools WIP”. (WIP = Work In Progress). Changed files in this revision includes lots of Joomla JS files, the khepri template, the contact component and the administrators media manager, so I think it is safe to say that MooTools will be a significant part of Joomla in the near future.

Torkil Johnsen » Joomla 1.5 to include MooTools

UPDATE: It seems my post has attracted the attention of Amy

Here is a note to explain best I can that the inclusion of mootools DOESNT (yet) mean Joomla 1.5 has AJAX support.

[quote from here] Mootools is about more than ajax, ajax in mootools is only a very small part of the library, in fact its the most least used part of mootools for a lot of people.

As an example of how (currently) moo is used, for the Pane Sliders in Joomla 1.5 the moo tools for Pack and Slide are used to produce the new sliders that are used for params tables etc…

Moo is about easy javascript, about being able to have nice slide in/out effects, about referencing DOM objects easily and manipulating them.

At the time of writing, the J1.5 SVN doesnt even have the mootools AJAX plugin JS. All it has is moo.fx.pack.js and moo.fx.slide.js so using moo for ajax (at the time of writing) is impossible anyway

I believe you are confused about mootools and ajax and about exactly what including mootools really brings to Joomla 1.5 - it is certainly NOT included by the core devs to provide ajax functionality and is certainly not a change in direction from the official line - yet !