Allan Odgaard plugs my JavaScript Tools Bundle, which (thanks to Thomas Aylott) is now a part of BundleForge. Pretty cool.
Talking with Microsoft about IE.next. The things he asked for (mostly JS‐related) were determined (by vote) to be the most critical things for IE to catch up on. I’m optimistic.
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.
Core team member Scott Raymond shows you What’s new in Prototype 1.5.
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.)
At long last: Prototype has an actual web site. With documentation. There’s plenty more to say, and I’ll save it for a longer post, but Justin Palmer is owed some major kudos for working so hard on the site. And so do Chris, Tobie, and Mislav — the three newest members of Prototype Core — who poured their hearts and souls into documentation.
Bind to ⌘S. Will execute rake dist automatically if you just saved a file in the src directory.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Save: Current File
# Input: None
# Output: Discard
# Scope: source.js.prototype
FILE = ENV['TM_FILEPATH']
DIR = File.dirname(FILE)
if (DIR =~ /\/src$/)
basedir = DIR.gsub(/\/src$/, '')
Dir.chdir(basedir)
`/usr/local/bin/rake dist -f #{basedir}/Rakefile`
endSam Foster and I are once again leading a JavaScript discussion for Refresh Austin — this time focusing on the major libraries and on practical problem‐solving. Show up tonight at 7pm for the Dojo vs. Prototype girly slap‐fight! You won’t be disappointed.
That’s right — I just used the perfect passive participle. Deal with it. Everyone else is doing it, so I suppose I have to do a postmortem on The Ajax Experience. IE.next and JavaScript The just‐released Internet Explorer 7 features only a few crumbs for JavaScript developers, so I respect Chris Wilson…
If you’re going to The Ajax Experience, I’ll probably see you there. I’m getting on a plane tomorrow at an intolerable time before sunrise and will wind up in Boston sometime around 1pm. I look forward to several of the panels — and especially Brendan Eich’s keynote — but will also be thrilled to share a beer with those whose code I have used (and whose work I have copied) for over a year now: Justin Palmer, Dan Webb, Aaron Gustafson, John Resig, and other ninja‐like entities.