Mar9

Prototype 1.5.1, release candidate 1. This one contains my complete $$ overhaul, so if you query by CSS selector at all then you need to download this right now. Once 1.5.1 gets a final release (and when I’m once again sober) I’ll write a lot more about this.

5 Responses to “Link: Prototype 1.5.1_rc1”

  1. 1 Dean Edwards Says:

    This looks like a very good release. The XPath parser looks awesome.

    Two things:

    1. Must you overwrite Array.prototype.concat?
    2. You site is very slow to load these days. 200K of script isn’t helping. ;-)

  2. 2 kourge Says:

    There seems to be something weird about the title: this article is on 1.5.1_rc1, right? But it’s titled 1.5.0_rc1.

    It’s nice to see that there’s finally a centralized browser detection variable. That way there won’t be /Konqueror|Safari|KHTML/.test(navigator.userAgent) running all over the place.

    Way to go for the native JSON support! Although it might be safer for .toJSON(true) to be the default setting.

    I have to say this has nothing to do with 1.5.1_rc1, but I really really really want to see Event methods actually being extended on event objects that are passed to event handler functions. It’s painfully silly to do Event.stop(event).

  3. 3 Andrew Says:

    @Dean: Are you sure we overwrite Array.prototype.concat? I define Selector.handlers.concat for fast joining of DOM collections, but I don’t think we touch native array concatenation.

    And, yeah, I need to trim all the Scriptaculous stuff I don’t use on this site. Thanks for the prod.

    @Kourge: Yeah, I fucked up on the title of the post. And the events stuff you’re asking for is being worked on — there’s an “events” branch in trunk that holds the in-progress code.

  4. 4 Dean Edwards Says:

    My mistake. You overwrite Array.prototype.concat for Opera only. You do overwrite map though. Ignore my nitpickings, like I said this looks like a great release,

  5. 5 kourge Says:

    Yup, found the event spinoff at Rails Trac. Awwwwwesome.


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