Using MooTools means you'll be coding in a web application framework that excels in object-oriented programming and JavaScript best practices. Modern development principles, such as unobtrusive JavaScript programming and object-based logic is the bread and butter of MooTools.
For example, modern development practices dictate that we separate our site's functional and behavioral layers (server-side and client-side scripts) from our site's content structural layer (HTML markup). This concept is known as unobtrusive JavaScript, and we'll delve into this best practice here in this chapter. You'll see one of the more important ways of how MooTools makes us write better JavaScript.
But we're going to be covering more than just unobtrusive JavaScript. We're going to work with classes, which is the design pattern of the entire MooTools framework.
MooTools is structured into classes. In programming, a class is simply a template of an object. A class can contain...