As you might have seen from some of Mitch Allen's webinar<http://pdnblog.palm.com/?p=79>, Palm's new Mojo application framework includes Prototype as part of its interface and implementation. As a member of the Mojo team, I'd like to extend thanks to all the Prototype library developers. Prototype gave us an enormous head start on developing Mojo.
When we started Mojo we considered all the popular JavaScript libraries to use as a basis for Mojo. Prototype stood out for the large amount of needed functionality it added to JavaScript. I like to think that addition like those made to Array are functionality that Array classes should have, and it's odd that JavaScript omits them. Now that the details of webOS and Mojo are out in public, I have two questions about the design of Prototype whose answers would help in Mojo development. On a webkit-based browser, what is the reasons to create and use the event wrappers? In Mojo we've modified them to be thin wrappers around addEventListener for the short term to get around some memory "leaks" they caused in our environment, but I think that is too big and change and would like to find a more compatible fix. How much interest is there in augmenting Prototype to use a native JSON parser when present? Since we use JSON extensively in our system, the performance gains of a native parser are measurable. Our internal application developers have been using the Prototype JSON encoding/decoding features extensively, so it's best for Mojo if the Prototype JSON features used the native one. If the idea is appealing to the community, I'd happily provide a patch based on everyones notion of the right way to go about it. Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
