Unfortunately, I'm in the unlucky situation of having to reprogram a massive, prototype-based web application using jQuery. I've been getting very frustrated with jQuery because it's focus is much more narrow - some say this helps streamline things but I find really the parts that I needed were not the largest ones, while jquery's CSS selection may have better benchmarks overall prototype encourages cleaner application code, both in and out of the DOM.
So I've been kinda miffed until I came upon this: http://essentials.kourge.net/ Which basically gives you only the programmatic aspects of Prototype, leaving the DOM up to some other library. I don't know, I've kinda gotten the sense this is the case with a lot of people lately. Are there any plans from the prototype developers to support such a stripped down, non-DOM only version of Prototype for use in combination with other, more narrow libraries in the future? It's nice that this guy made this but I worry about basing my application on something one person is maintaining. I think this might be a great way for Prototype's better side to get more use from developers who are otherwise stuck with other javascript libraries... and help keep some of us from going nuts when we discover little things like indexOf aren't even supported anymore! jQuery seems to have momentum but Prototype has its big plusses too, and jQuery really doesn't have an answer for all of them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
