Why mootools joomla

Thanks for the work. Because it is more than likely, that once you realize, that you need mootools on some site. Great plugin, fast and easy. Install, enable and the mootools libraries disappeared Perfect Thanks to developer!!! This plugin is great. It resolved a scripting error and provided a significant improvement in performance. I highly recommend using this for Joomla 3.

This plugin solves one of the serious problems of Joomla, the coexistence of mootools and jQuery. Until disappears from the core, this plugin is for my mandatory installation.

Besides the care of the code, ease of installation and its noncommercial character are super! I was having issues with Mootools causing Disqus problems..

My pages averaged roughly or k. Just on a lark I installed this plug in. There was a menu that needed mootools but after switching back to the default Joomla menu, now my pages average around k or so. Display 10 30 60 Showtags By Roberto Segura. Content Tags for Joomla Showtags is a Joomla content plugin to show article tags in category or article views. Please proceed carefully and, needless to say, at your own risk!

Some of our clients with advanced technical skills who sub-contract to us sometimes ask us to disable mootools on a Joomla website. We respond that it can be done, but at their own risk, since a lot of Joomla behavior especially in the backend is powered by mootools.

So they tell us that they want to proceed anyway… Now the question is, how do we do it? This method simply consists of deleting through FTP the mootools files that are included by Joomla. The mootools files to be deleted are the following:.

As mentioned earlier , the mootools JavaScript library is included in the file behavior. So, to comment out the inclusion of mootools, all you need to do is to comment out the following lines lines in the aforementioned file:. This method is better than the first one because we are only commenting the inclusion of the files, and not deleting the files. The downside of this method, however, is that we are changing a core file behavior. At itoctopus, changing core files is always a last resort option when everything else fails!

This plugin is fairly simple. Add or remove files from the dontInclude - the ones you add here will be unloaded. Anything which you do not include will not be unloaded. There are quite a few plugins that allow you to remove such scripts if you don't want to include them. For example, you can choose the Auto enable the scripts for the users' login and for article addition. We also use the same plugin to unload other stuff that we want to exclude by simply adding the URL of the JS file we want to exclude:.

As you can see, we're dropping infinite scrolling and pagination scripts which are included by default in our template, but which we do not need - and would just add page loading time literally for nothing. In our quest to bring our site to load in as few milliseconds as possible, this tool has been a great addition. Another alternative whose setup is a little more complicated is jQueryEasy. This is much more configurable, but usually makes sense in the hands of a developer who os very comfortable with Joomla.

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