The new version of iPhoto, announced not too long ago, features Web Gallery, a way to export your photo library to a .Mac web share. The sample gallery confirms that these Ajax-heavy galleries use Prototype and Scriptaculous under the hood. It could not make me happier that Apple seem to have adopted the two libraries company-wide.
Category: Prototype
Aug7
Jun3
Belated note: in case you missed my Refresh Austin talk about Prototype/Scriptaculous, you can experience the slides without having to listen to my stammering commentary.
May1
Prototype 1.5.1 released! If you’re still running 1.5.0, you shouldn’t be. The $$ optimization alone is worth the upgrade.
Apr4
Capabilities vs. Quirks: a look at browser sniffing
Max Carlson (of OpenLaszlo) recently wrote about his toolkit’s approach to browser quirks, reminding me of a great Dev.Opera article on capability detection.
Both argue for an approach that relies on the individual capabilities and quirks of a browser, rather than one that relies on sniffing as a first option. This is a noble idea and …
Mar27
Here’s something I worked on for a few hours just to amuse myself. I’d develop it further, but I can’t see how this has any sort of practical use (also note the caveats at the top of the script). So here it is: a web page desaturator. Takes all colors in linked stylesheets and turns them into grayscale versions. Here’s a demo using a page from the Prototype site. Firefox only.
Mar9
Prototype 1.5.1, release candidate 1. This one contains my complete $$ 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.
Feb26
Packing Prototype
In the last month or two we’ve had a number of tickets filed on the Rails Trac asking that Prototype adopt a more rigid syntax. Doing so would make it much easier to compress Prototype with tools like JSMin and Packer.
Opinions vary on this issue within the core team, but we all seem to …
Feb5
Alex Russell unveils dojo.query, the latest gauntlet tossed down in the fetching-elements-by-CSS-selector wars. I’m working on a similar overhaul for Prototype which I’ll talk more about when the time is right.
Jan26
Core team member Scott Raymond shows you What’s new in Prototype 1.5.
Jan24
Prototype Core. Qualified to write a JavaScript library, to be sure, but clearly unqualified to speak about hair care. (I include myself in this assessment.)
