Comments on: Auto scrolling page navigation with $$

By: splintor

splintor — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:14:30 +0000

Nitpicking: As you said in http://ajaxian.com/archives/prototype-151-release-candidate-released, the $$ operator is not new in 1.5.1, it just got a lot faster, and it now fully supports CCS3, so now it an be more easily used.

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:12:29 +0000

@ CrackWilding: As I’ve mentioned in my post, on a UI perspective, this is IMHO better, as it clearly shows the user if he is taken further down the page or back up.

By: CrackWilding

CrackWilding — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:52:08 +0000

Is there some real benefit from this? I’d like to point out that the actual functionality has been around since, what, like 1993? So we’re doing what here, slowing the process down? Why?

And what’s next? Simulated page loading?

By: annoyed

annoyed — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:23:59 +0000

Ok guys, we get it mootools has something similar, but the author wasn’t trying to replace mootools with this, simply showing the power of $$(), Prototype 1.5.1rc2 has tons of awesome features, why dwell on a lacking novelty like smoothScroll. Also please read the previous posts, the herd of mooTools users sound like a broken record.

By: digitarald

digitarald — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:18:32 +0000

for mootools, SmoothScroll takes document.links, is a lot faster then $$:
How to use …

new SmoothScroll();

Thats easy ;) It also works on Safari. The shown example here is also a bad pattern because it does not set the url fragment correct. Page scrolls but url fragment does not change as expected.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:11:35 +0000

MooTools already has this. It’s known as SmoothScroll.

By: Vital

Vital — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:56:13 +0000

2.0.1, 2.0.3 of course it work in latest 2.0.4
nevermind

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:26:06 +0000

Vital, could you let us know which version of Safari you are running ?

By: Vital

Vital — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:25:34 +0000

anyway article is great! ;)

By: Vital

Vital — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:24:15 +0000

ok, i get it, so much developers has latest version of Safari and don’t think about a bit old version…

By: Delapouite

Delapouite — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:40 +0000

@ Boris Popoff : this functionality is already available in mootools : the plug-in SmoothScroll

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:24:56 +0000

What the hell are you talking about Vital, it works fine in Safari.

Great article on the power of Prototype’s revamped $$.

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:20:04 +0000

Vital: which version of Safari are you using ?

This is working for me both in Safari 2.0.4 and in WebKit.

By: Vital

Vital — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:19:12 +0000

i mean http://projects.danwebb.net/wiki/LowPro

By: Vital

Vital — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:16:09 +0000

i think we all ready to add ppk events in prototype.js (like it’s already done by http://www.danwebb.net/lowpro/ ) to RIGHT handle events in Safari (to handle Event.stop)…

becouse this example again don’t work in Safari yeah…

By: Boris Popoff

Boris Popoff — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:28:41 +0000

Sweet ! It seems to be easy to port it to mootools or other frameworks.