[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Mislav Marohnić
On Jan 7, 2008 9:25 PM, Ken Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What features are the authors considering in upcoming releases? Or is public discussion of the Prototype/SAU roadmap limited due to factors such as competition with other frameworks? We don't lay out long roadmaps for Prototype

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Peters
Mislav Marohnić wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 9:25 PM, Ken Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some ideas are shared with the community while some are kept private for further discussions among core members. Why the secrecy? This is an open source project after all. So, the reason we don't share the exact

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Ken Snyder
Mislav Marohnić wrote: ... - Expand Prototype custom events to fire callbacks for Element methods such as update, setStyle, remove, replace, insert, wrap, writeAttribute, addClassName, removeClassName, scrollTo, etc. That is planned for the next major release. Based on

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Ken Snyder
Mislav Marohnić wrote: ... - Add Prototype support for onmouseenter and onmouseleave This is definitely useful to the majority of users. We are still discussing if it's going to become core and in which version. Meanwhile, read the very insightful article by Andrew about why

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Ken Snyder
I periodically share Michael's feelings as well. For me, those concerns would be eliminated if the authors did two things: 1. Publicly disclosed the enhancements they were /considering/ (not necessarily a formal roadmap) 2. Set up a thriving community for official and unofficial plugins For

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Ken Snyder
This is great. Kudos to Kangax for compiling it! I'm probably dreaming too big, but it would be great if the code was submitted so that it could be hosted on the site and required unit tests to be certified for a certain Prototype version. Plus demos on the site would be fantastic. I really

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Gareth Evans
Ken, http://scripteka.com/ Prototype extensions library. maintained by Kangax On Jan 8, 2008 10:42 AM, Ken Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I periodically share Michael's feelings as well. For me, those concerns would be eliminated if the authors did two things: 1. Publicly disclosed the

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Monday 07 January 2008, Ken Snyder wrote: - Expand Prototype custom events to fire callbacks for Element methods such as update, setStyle, remove, replace, insert, wrap, writeAttribute, addClassName, removeClassName, scrollTo, etc. I've written about notifications for DOM changes just

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Ken Snyder
Mislav Marohnić wrote: ... - Add intuitive Prototype methods for checkbox- and radio-group form elements ( e.g. a method to get the value of the currently checked item(s) in based on a group name) Hmm, we have it for select boxes and multiple selects, why not radio

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Tobie Langel
Yup, That's awsome. Very insightful remarks, too. How does the performance feel ? Best, Tobie On Jan 7, 11:26 pm, Michael Schuerig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Ken Snyder wrote: - Expand Prototype custom events to fire callbacks for Element methods such as

[Prototype-core] Re: Development Roadmap

2008-01-07 Thread Rod Vagg
On Jan 8, 9:33 am, Ken Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mislav Marohnić wrote: ... - Add intuitive Prototype methods for checkbox- and radio-group form elements ( e.g. a method to get the value of the currently checked item(s) in based on a group name) Hmm, we have it