Just sort of curious ... of all the convenience that prototype offers,
why is the only method you "need" is Element.update()?
Anyway, try this...
(function() {
function _$(args) {
this.elements = [];
for (var i = 0, len = args.length; i < len; ++i) {
if (typeof args[i] == 'string') {
this.elements.push( document.getElementById(args[i]) );
}
}
}
_$.prototype = {
update: function() {
this.elements[0].innerHTML = arguments[0];
return this;
}
};
window.$ = function() {
return new _$(arguments);
};
})();
And a fragment to drop into a body...
<p id="p_content">
This is some content that starts in a <p>
</p>
<div id="div_content">
This is some content that starts in a <div>
</div>
<script>
window.onload = function () {
$('p_content').update('test');
$('div_content').update('test');
};
</script>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Bertrand <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That would indeed be another interesting way of doing it. The only
> problem is that javascript is often used in environments where
> filesize is critical. In my case, I only use ONE function from the
> library, because I've found it to be th best way to achieve what I
> want to do: Element.update.
>
> But because I'm unable to sort the source code out, I have to either:
>
> Ditch Prototype altogether (which I don't really want to do)
>
> OR
>
> Make use of the whole library, which is a no-go for me as the minified
> +gzip version still weighs a solid 25kB (which isn't much, but still
> way too much for our needs).
>
> What bothers me here is the "one-size-fits-all" mentality, but
> complaining about it sure is easy when I'm not providing any code to
> fix the problem, I know it is, but still it bothers me that I'll have
> to end up not using update (which is a fantastic piece of code, like
> the rest of the library) just because it's so deeply intertwined with
> the rest of the codebase.
>
> What I was hinting at is something akin to what jqueryUI has on
> http://jqueryui.com/download but even more fine-grained (at function
> level if possible).
> >
>
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