On Thursday 12 October 2006 7:33 am, Michael Peters wrote:
> I like prototype because it makes somethings about Javascript less painful.
> It provides some syntax-sugar stuff ( ie, $('some_div') is a shortcut for
> document.getElementById('some_div') ) as well as providing things (ie,
> bindAsEventListener() to use closures and 'this' without too much trouble).
> But Prototype isn't the lightest solution. It also doesn't have the nice
> CPANy ecosystem that we're used to in Perl. There exist other libraries
> based on Prototype (Scriptaculous is the biggest one) but they aren't
> centralized and sometimes hard to find.FYI, there is an "Alien-scriptaculous" package on CPAN, which bundles up the latest copy of script.aculo.us and makes it available for you to install locally into your own htdocs tree. I too found that it wasn't easy to make sure that I always had things installed correctly, and although HTML::Prototype helped I didn't want all of the wrappers that went with it. So, I created Alien::scriptaculous. Doesn't provide any useful Perl code, but it is useful as a dependency so that you know that you've got the JS libraries installed somewhere. -- Graham TerMarsch Howling Frog Internet Development, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
