I don’t know how long ago this happened, but I just noticed that gotAPI.com now has an index of Sergio Pereira’s Prototype documentation. Since it’s based on version 1.4, it’s about eight months out of date, but it’s still handy to have while we work on proper documentation. Expect an exhaustive reference when 1.5 gets a final release.
My JavaScript Tools TextMate Bundle has been updated to version 0.1.1. It includes binaries for both PPC and Intel. Download it.
I’ve created a TextMate bundle of tools for JavaScript developers. It’s fairly small at the moment, but I might add more things as they occur to me.
Hixie’s trying to standardize innerHTML. One simple test gives five different results in 4½ different browsers. I don’t understand how he stays sane.
I consider myself humbly fortunate to have been added as a member of Prototype‘s new core development team. My first patch: optimizing getElementsByClassName. Browsers with XPath support get an eightfold performance gain; others get a modest gain of 50–100%.
Adapted from the functions posted on QuirksMode.
var Client = {
viewportWidth: function() {
return self.innerWidth || (document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth);
},
viewportHeight: function() {
return self.innerHeight || (document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight);
},
viewportSize: function() {
return { width: this.viewportWidth(), height: this.viewportHeight() };
}
};Prototype 1.5.0 has a new release candidate. New stuff since my last post: awesome DOM navigation via Element.(up|down|next|previous), Array.uniq, and a few bug fixes. There’s some more cool stuff in the pipeline.
A smorgasbord of commits to the Prototype SVN repo, after four months of inactivity. Method chaining, new Element.Methods, object cloning, and this patch I wrote a while back. This is a meat‐filled and much‐needed update.
Freshen up your JavaScript, a presentation given by Sam Foster and me at the Refresh Austin meeting earlier this month. If you’re in Austin and you’re reading this blog, you probably ought to be a Refresh member.
Today’s wonk porn is going to talk about iterators — one of JavaScript 1.7‘s cool new features — and how it relates to polymorphism. Grab a recent nightly build of Firefox 2.0 in order to play along.