Hi Deco,

On 11/30/06, Deco Rior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So... if Peter really wants to make his mark, can he at least try to
> keep the API the same or compatible with Prototype.

The API is similar in some places but can't stay the same. I am
writing a namespaced library.

For example,

new Insertion.Bottom(id, html)

becomes

FORK.Mutate.insertBottom(id, html)


> After over 12 months of investment, the barrier to migrate with a
> major code change to another library would be daunting.

Fork probably isn't ready yet for this situation but eventually I
think the work would be worth it.


> In any case
> it would need to be something with some muscle behind it (by that I
> mean, contributers, funding, third-party certification).

Perhaps one day. Not many open source software projects start with
this much muscle.


> No matter how good the code is, unless I have some degree of
> certainty that the next version of IE will not break it we cannot
> commit.

I too need this code to work with IE 7.


Peter

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