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.
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.
Here’s a quick workflow to compress whatever version of Prototype you please.
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`
end