Hi Tobie, On 12/3/06, tobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is it exactly that you are trying to do?
The Rails world has a bad practice of promoting only the positives. This misleads people. Rails gives Prototype the stamp of approval by default inclusion and the most some people might know about Prototype is <%= javascript_include_tag 'prototype' %> If Prototype's front page contained a link to a page describing design tradeoffs I think users evaluating the library's worth and applicability would be much better served. The code shows these features in plain JavaScript so why not just tell them quickly in a little bit of plain English? If they find the tradeoffs acceptable then it doesn't matter if they read them in JavaScript or English. It is just that the English will make the evaluation much faster. Also there are many clever Rails programmers that don't know even intermediate JavaScript and eventhough they would understand the tradeoffs as concepts if written in English they can't see them when reading the Prototype code directly. > Drive Prototype users away from Prototype to your own library? No. > I'm sorry, but I'm starting to find your attitude slightly displeasing > to say the least. > > If you do not like Prototype, don't use it. If you have another library > to offer, please feel free to promote it, but are you sure it is > necessary to bash on Prototype to do so? I think Rails users should be warned of the potential serious consequences of using Prototype and investing time into learning to write JavaScript with the Prototype way when that invested time would be better spent learning how to write and understand usual JavaScript. They will need these skills when they try and create a unique UI. Peter ------- http://forkjavascript.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
