Prototype 1.5: Now with a manual!
Posted by David January 19, 2007 @ 01:24 AM
Prototype 1.5 shipped together with Rails 1.2 today. But that’s not all that’s been happening at the JavaScript sugar mill. Today also marks the official unveiling of prototypejs.org. A brand new site dedicated to promoting and teaching Prototype. It comes complete with API documentation, a blog, and a guide on how to contribute. Congratulations to Sam, Justin, and the rest of the team behind the site.
This is exactly what prototype was missing, and now both 1.2 and all of these goodies at the same time. I guess all railers are getting a slightly late (but amazing) Christmas gift
and a hefty 72kb it is.
@fat baby: With gzip compression, it’s a simple matter to trim Prototype down to a svelte 16kb or so. All the cool kids are doing it! (See http://tinyurl.com/29p59u for more details.)
Thank god. We needed a manual when all we had was cheat sheets. Good work.
the last missing piece – halleluja! :-)
booo false advertising. when i think “manual” i think “single pdf that can be downloaded and printed in all its tactile glory.” what we get instead is the hyperlink paradigm where there shouldn’t be one.
Silly of them to use html for writing documents.
don’t skirt the issue, buddy! i want my pdf!
Man, that’s awesome. Maybe Sam can work on a new feature that spams message boards with child pornography next. Oh wait, he’s already done that multiple times.