MochaUI is very intuitive and the modal iframes almost perfectly replicate Windows. Unfortunately, I have scripts written in Jquery that I use, and I hear there are conflicts when putting both Mootools and Jquery on one html file (is this true?).
How can I get the MochaUI features in Jquery?
At the very least, is there a similar modal dialog system?
I've seen JqueryUI Dialog but it makes the background go dark and nonfunctional, which is not what I am looking for.
Hi,
you can use JQuery and MooTools , consult this Page :
Using jQuery with other Libs..
i think you have to change the JQuery-Selector "$"
If you don't want to implement the functionality done in Mootools to be applied in jQuery you can read the official jQuery documentation for using jQuery with other libraries.
Using jQuery with Other Libraries
If you need to do the modal dialog box in jQuery there are a lot of samples available like
With some tweaking (enable JQuery noConflict-Mode, replace the $ selector by something like $jq) you should be able to get to work both.
However you might easily end up with a Frankenstein app that mixes MooTools and Jquery plugins. Also the javascript load is quite enormous, because you have to include Mootools, JQuery AND their top-level UI toolkits.
I'd recommend that you investigate if JQuery UI could replace MochaUI (or vice versa). One combination of JS lib + UI toolkit is far easier to maintain.
The downside of MochaUI is that it has some issues with IE8, furthermore it is not very up-to-date (last release Sept 2008).
JQuery UI is much more modular (you can just pick the parts you need), has a visual CSS Theme Editor (Themeroller) and offers a 2-month release schedule. Its disadvantages: it doesn't yet cover essential UI components (such as a menu, a "viewport" manager that renders you UI components, palettes). However, these features are expected soon.
those are things that you could use to either try and create some effects like mocha ui offers or a way to use mocha ui and jquery. However the full featured capabilities of Mochi UI, have yet to be put together in a jquery plugin that I am aware of, despite my own search. As I am not a moo-fan in the least.
I really love mocha-ui, and anyone who suggests jquery UI as an alternative just doesn't "get it". Mocha-ui is smooth and beautiul, it looks professional, like a windows app in your browser. I'm sure with css updates in the browsers it'll be very easy to accomplish what Mocha-UI already does, sadly we're not there yet. If anyone ever does come out with a jquery plugin that has all of the functionality of mocha-UI, I hope they post it here and other places so we can all share with the goodness. :)