On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 17:35, Diodeus <diod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there any plan to remedy this situation?
If you look at the development on master since 1.6.0.3, you can see that some significant effort has been put into re-organizing Prototype modules and better usage of the module pattern in JavaScript. However, main modules like Hash, Template, Enumerable, etc. are going to stay in the global namespace until some major release where the core team decides to pull them under the Prototype namespace. It is not certain when will that happen, but a year ago (or more) I showed how it's fairly easy to namespace Prototype yourself with few minor changes to the library. Any project like Bespin can use this approach if it wants to bundle Prototype and nobody has to wait for the prototype core team to do it. However, the core team definitely decided (or so they sounded) to stop extending DOM elements in the future major release. It is just too slow in IE and has bitten back on several occasions in other browsers that implemented some of the methods natively (if I recall correctly). It is not clear will Prototype ever stop extending native prototypes like Function, Array, Number, Event, etc. I vote no, because if Prototype ever stops extending DOM nodes, extending native prototypes, and touching the rest of the runtime environment all-together, it will cease to be the "Prototype" library. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-core-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
