On 7/10/07, J. Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
prototype.js and friends (scriptaculous, openrico, etc) are rated the lowest in those categories. It fails the robust check by having several things that don't play nice together, and also I've seen some serious cross-browser compatibility issues. Standardization is probably the biggest gripe people have with prototype.js. It doesn't encapsulate and clobbers existing objects or adds on to them in weird ways (like arrays). As an example, if you use some effects in scriptaculous, Google Maps fails to work because of their mouse capturing code.
Good to know. Do you know which Scriptaculous effects break Google Maps? It will be useful for planning for the future. It's safe to say that inside of the Catalyst community, you will get
absolutely zero support if you chose to use Prototype. You are free to ask, but you will get flamed for your choice. That's just the way it goes.
Some of the larger Catalyst-based sites use prototype (or parts of prototype) but the ones I've seen don't use Google Maps. Those projects also don't ask for prototype help from the Catalyst community. I think some of the flames given for prototype usage also prevent others from providing assistance. As you say, that's just the way it goes. If you want alternatives, here are the more favored solutions that
have proven themselves to be of a quality Catalysters will bother assisting with: * Dojo - http://www.dojotoolkit.org/ * YUI - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ * jQuery - http://www.jquery.com/ * Mootools - http://mootools.net * MochiKit - http://www.mochikit.com And, of course, there is Ext (http://www.extjs.com) which sits on top of YUI and jQuery (and hopefully Dojo soon... and unfortunately prototype.js, but it's a good way of getting your code away from prototype and onto something higher quality.) and is more of a "widget". Picking a quality JS lib is just as important as picking a quality framework.
I think one reason prototype keeps coming up is because HTML::Prototype exists and is the only wrapper providing Perl access to JS effects. HTML::Prototype doesn't seem to have a lot of functionality in it but it can get some small things going fast. If a HTML::$other_js_lib was created, especially with the same API, Prototype usage would probably stop. A HTML::JQuery might be useful. Just a thought. -- John Wang http://www.dev411.com/blog/
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