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Milk, a fork of the popular MooTools library which aims to refactor it for prime time.

What's new?

Milk will now require Lo-Dash (or another equivalent library like Underscore or Sugar) for prototype and utility functionality. These vendors provide extensive compatibility, robust performance, and thorough unit test coverage. Why re-create the wheel?

Besides the vendor requirement, the following new features can be found.

• Extending native prototypes with vendor functions (above)
• Event namespacing
• Promises or callback deferring
• Method aliases (appendTo(), etc)
• CSS3 support (box-sizing, etc)
• Pseudo selectors

And the following MooTools More modules have been merged into the core of Milk.

• Class.Binds
• Elements.from
• Element.Event.Pseudos
• Element.Measure
• Element.Position
• Element.Shortcuts

What's changed?

The following MooTools Core modules have been removed from Milk. Either their functionality is obsolete, or a replacement has been provided.

• 1.2/1.3 functionality like chk, pick, etc
• Old browser compatibility
• Browser - Use feature detection instead
• Fx - Use CSS3 transitions and animations instead
• Slick - Replaced with querySelectorAll() and other built-in browser functionality
• Array, Number, Object, String - Prototype functions will be inherited through vendors (above)
• JSON - Use the built-in browser functionality instead

Most, if not all of the MooTools More modules will no longer be compatible. Supporting More modules will be on a case by case basis.

Supported Browsers

• Chrome 8+
• Firefox 4+
• Internet Explorer 9+
• Safari 5.1+
• Opera 12+

Why a minimum requirement of IE9? Simply put, IE8 and below do not support functionality like getComputedStyle(), getElementsByClassName(), matchesSelector(), class lists, ECMAScript 5 features, advanced CSS3 selectors, HTML5 elements, event handling, and much more. By removing these outdated browsers as a dependency, the code base can be greatly reduced.

Furthermore, Milk is intended to be used in modern browsers supporting the latest and greatest. It's best to start preparing for the future.