Comments on: JavaScript Scripting Essentials

By: Tom Sieron

Tom Sieron — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:24:42 +0000

Prototype?! Isn’t that about 50+kB large? Plus for all the fun stuff you’d need scriptaculous too, right? Thanks, but I’ll pass. Most of the time I use plain old JS scripts and whenever I want some bells and whistles I use jQuery.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:17:31 +0000

Prototype ia a MUST! Plus I always inject some additional functions like startsWith(), trim(), normalizeSpaces(),.. for Strings .
And recently I have developed simple JS function createAndSubmitDynamicForm(href) that allow me to use http://aujava.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/postable-html-links/
Plus sometimes I use Behaviour. Surprisingly enough Sriptaculous is usedonly for unit testing..

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:34:36 +0000

Thomas… wow wow wow! I only contributed the part that makes the morph accept a class name…! I really doubt that makes me into a genius! ;-)

By: Thomas Aylott

Thomas Aylott — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:25:47 +0000

On large projects I use prototype + my personal library.
For one-off pages or tiny projects I just write pure naked Javascript.
Mootools is starting to look pretty slick. I might end up using that with some of the new stuff I’ll be doing soon.
I might have to steal the new scriptaculous morph function though (Tobie Langel is a genius).

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:45:26 +0000

I’m a bit of a “notbuilthere” person. Been building my library since before the names “Prototype” and “Dojo” were known, so it’s not so easy to port my work to use either of those.

My own portables include the standards such as addEvent(), X() and $(), and a load of generally useful functions such as date_m2h(d) (translates MySQL dates to Human-readable), isArray(obj), newNumberRange(from,to,pad) (returns an array of numbers, optionally padded (03,04,05, etc)).

There are about 3 dozen functions I bring around project to project. Those are probably the more interesting ones.

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:22:17 +0000

@handcoder – looks like somone has a case of the Mondays! I use Prototype as well and some bits n peaces that I have put togeather to compliment it.

By: Nir Tayeb

Nir Tayeb — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:48:33 +0000

I use MooToools. It’s the best tool for me.

By: handcoder

handcoder — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:40:40 +0000

[quote]I normally use prototype. Sometimes with script.aculo.us for some effects![/quote]

too bad that this fat libshit only works in firefox…that fucks up every 10 minutes since the last update. it’s a shame!

By: Georges

Georges — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:28:09 +0000

I normally use prototype. Sometimes with script.aculo.us for some effects!

By: Ricardo Momm

Ricardo Momm — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:44:11 +0000

I use Moo Tools :)

By: Felix PleÅŸoianu

Felix PleÅŸoianu — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:27:02 +0000

It’s definitely a very small world… http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Vdrx7eU3fqovesPu9Y8Y?p=24