A developer that's recently joined my team is new to Prototype and is finding himself trying to do things in a jQuery-ish way, for example:
$$('.panel').addClassName('red').addClassName('blue'); I explained the differences between the Prototype and JQuery ways of doing things, and demonstrated that the same result could be achieved using Prototype with not a great deal more code: $$('.panel').invoke('addClassName', 'red').invoke('addClassName', 'blue'); At the same time I noticed the NodeList present in the BBC's new Glow library (see here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/docs/1.5/api/glow.dom.nodelist.shtml ), and wondered whether Prototype could benefit of a similar module to allow the element methods to be invoked on a collection of DOM nodes (the return of $$) and chained together jQuery-style. A real basic implementation could look something like this, only less lame.... var NodeList = Class.create(Enumerable, { initialize : function(elements){ this.elements = elements; }, _each : function(iterator){ this.elements.each(iterator); }, item : function(i){ return this.elements[i]; } addClassName : function(className){ this.elements.invoke('addClassName', className); return this; } // More methods here.... }); I don't think Prototype needs to make itself like jQuery, and I'm not looking to start that debate here. I am however interested to hear if anyone thinks there is any value in this approach, or indeed if not. Personally I think it would do well to make Prototype more accessible to newcomers. Thanks, Mike. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-core-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---