I’ve just pushed script.aculo.us 1.6.5 for your download pleasure. It’s a maintenance release that adds a few tweaks here and there—read on!
Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc1 revision [5462]
Support the HTML ‘for’ attribute in Builder by using ‘htmlFor’, fixes #6472 [gjones, tdd]
Add support to run a specific failing unit test by clicking on the corresponding test result, [...]
moo.fx is a 3kb javascript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework. Open source, released under the MIT License, you can feel free to do anything you want with it.
456 Brea Street has a very neat article on how to get slick looking pull quotes into your articles without duplicating your content. Using a little javascript magic, you can easily add these to your site.
mootools is a very compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework. Its unique design makes it extremely crossbrowser, easy to use, and a snap to extend with your own code. It comes with a choice of more than fifteen scripts, plugins and addons, including Effects (moo.fx) Ajax (moo.ajax), Dom Navigator (moo.dom), Drag and Drop, Sortable lists, cookies [...]
Thomas Fuchs has sync’d up to the latest Prototype adding features along the way:
Update Prototype to V1.5.0_rc1 (read more on Justin Palmer’s blog)
Add experimental alternate syntax for unit tests (Behaviour Driven
Development-style)
Merge assertElementsMatch and assertElementMatches from Prototype’s
[4986] unittest.js [Sam Stephenson]
Add assertRespondsTo and shouldRespondTo assertions
// object var [...]
Luke Redpath and Dan Webb have released version 0.3 of their plugin for Rails to allow unobtrusive javascript. UJS now has its own dedicated website with docs and Trac. Discussion of this plugin on the official Rails blog shows there is interest in this plugin from members of Rails core, but it [...]
Jonathan Snook has drafted up a visual diagram showing all the methods and properties available in the popular web 2.0 AJAX script, prototype.js. Available in several resolutions, on black and on white it serves as an excellent cheat cheat for anyone developing web apps.
“In getting to know Prototype a little better, I decided to go [...]
Allowing users to increase/decrease text size using CSS and simple Javascript. Full source code and working examples.
Cameron Olthuis has posted a list of what he thinks are the top 10 most useful developer libraries. These should be in any web developers bookmarks, so go ahead and look through these libraries and bookmark your favorite ones. The list is in no particular order.
Ran across this while looking for a way to stop IE7 flash flicker and that annoying dotted line around activex objects.
SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash [...]
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