Hi, My name is James Burke, and I am usually a Dojo contributor. However, I have been working on a standalone, non-Dojo script/module loader, RequireJS, http://requirejs.org.
I want to see if Prototype is interested in using it, and if not the actual implementation, at least agreeing on the format/API to allow better interop. While a Prototype project is capable of using RequireJS without doing any explicit integration with the Prototype Core, there are some things that can be done to provide a better experience, mainly making sure dom:loaded is not fired until any inflight modules/scripts are loaded. This could be accomplished by modifying fireContentLoadedEvent() to know if there are require()-ed inflight modules and to register fireContentLoadedEvent with RequireJS so it can be called when modules are loaded. Since RequireJS uses dynamically generated script src="" tags, loading of scripts/modules is async in nature, and can finish after DOMContentLoaded. While smaller projects may not need a script/module loader, larger ones do, and RequireJS has an optimization tool that can be run a packaging/deployment time to combine scripts/modules together. I also believe that browser toolkits should work together to make sure they have a loader that works well in the browser. Otherwise, as time goes on, we will be pressed to use a format as described by CommonJS, which as it stands today does not work well natively in the browser. If you are interested, I am happy to prep a fork of Prototype that shows the integration, with unit tests. I have been able to convert Dojo to RequireJS, and have a fork of jQuery with integration and unit tests. The jQuery fork assumes optional integration in the JavaScript, and I would do the same with the Prototype code, only activating the hooks if require is present. James -- 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
