Pete Forde a écrit : > However, the code in question was Sebastien Gruhier's Prototype > Carousel widget, (http://prototype-carousel.xilinus.com/) which is > well designed, fairly recent, and perhaps unfortunately, widely used. > I say unfortunately only because the moment people upgrade their > scripts - or soon, Rails 1.2 - they are in for a nasty surprise.
At any rate, I'll notify Sébastien about this, so he gets a chance to fix it ASAP. > ps. From the looks of the latest RC, it's apparently time we all > start mastering XPath. XPath is a useful tool to have at your belt anyhow. With browsers increasingly implementing DOM 3 XPath (OK, true enough, you'll have to wait for another loooong while before IE burps it out), this makes for efficient-yet-fine-grained element selection. However, I don't see a very near future where Prototype would rely extensively on it w/o alternatives. And the full XPath syntax is too large to be usefully implemented from within Prototype (well, there are existing implementations out there, like GoogleAJAXSLT's xpath.js, but most of them are slightly incomplete anyhow). This syntax is also kinda inconsistent in some places (just look at the syntactic similitude between axes and functions, which is confusing at first). So don't fidget too much on XPath if your sole source of apparent need for it is Prototype. Of course, if you're harvesting large XML datasets as a daily matter, that's another matter entirely :-) -- Christophe Porteneuve a.k.a. TDD "[They] did not know it was impossible, so they did it." --Mark Twain Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
