[Prototype-core] Re: Prototype: AIR compliant?

2008-04-04 Thread Thomas Fuchs
Why not write a small override lib then, instead of converting the code... :) ? best, thomas On 20.03.2008, at 22:18, BenKeen wrote: I have to second Shadow's remark. I've had to turn to jQuery for my AIR app - a nice little framework, but requires converting my Prototype code in jQuery

[Prototype-core] Re: Prototype: AIR compliant?

2008-04-04 Thread John-David Dalton
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make em' drink :). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype: Core group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To

[Prototype-core] Re: Prototype: AIR compliant?

2008-04-04 Thread John-David Dalton
Here is a patch for it (I modified 2 lines of code): Please test and report back on the ticket if it works: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/11530 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype: Core

[Prototype-core] Re: Prototype: AIR compliant?

2008-04-04 Thread John-David Dalton
I tested the patch and it turns out that the eval() in the Selector class isn't a problem becuase Adobe Air uses the compileXPathMatcher() and bypasses the eval. The only issue must be the evals used for scripting and the patch takes care of those as well. Other than that I can't see an issue

[Prototype-core] Re: Prototype: AIR compliant?

2008-04-04 Thread John-David Dalton
Prototype does seem to work out of the box with ADOBE AIR. The script insertion that the patch for Prototype.exec() provides does not work under ADOBE AIR, but it does not error out either. If you want to eval code you can do somethign like this though, AIR allows: function exec(code){ new

[Prototype-core] Re: Prototype: AIR compliant?

2008-04-04 Thread John-David Dalton
Prototype has been using the compileXPathMatcher() for xpath support since 3/09/07 http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/6366 There shouldn't have been any issues with it since then, unless ADOBE AIR didn't support XPath until recently. Reguardless Prototype seems to work just fine.

[Prototype-core] Re: Prototype: AIR compliant?

2008-03-07 Thread Thomas Fuchs
Basically, what Adobe does is break the specs. We actually had a conference call with the AIR team a while ago, where they explained what and why they where doing this. We feel that we can't follow their reasoning by providing security or functionality by breaking the specs, so we didn't