Steve, You've hit upon something that we're aware of on the Core team. I think jQuery is a fantastic framework, but that its success has as much to do with its evangelism (and the resulting ecosystem) as with the quality of the code itself.
We have ideas on how to foster this same type of community, but like most contributors to open-source software, we have day jobs, so there's never enough time to do as much as we'd like. Enthusiastic users like kangax help fill that void. Scripteka is still young; I know we have plans to highlight it on the Prototype blog. Beyond the extension library, I know we'd like to do more to advance the *idea* of Prototype. We've talked about some sort of "pimp my code" thing, where we take good JavaScript and make it better, as a way to expose people to artful Prototype code idioms. (jQuery is really good at letting their code speak for them.) Soon there will be two books on the stands about Prototype 1.6. And several of us have plans (or are proposing) to speak at upcoming conferences like SXSW, RailsConf, and The Ajax Experience. If anyone on this list has the enthusiasm to help out, or even some ideas on how we can get started in this area, then let's start talking about this on the prototype-core list. Cheers, Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
