Comments on: New Prototype DOM Builder

By: Coder

Coder — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:54:30 +0000

So, i create an element and then extend it by creating the object node?

By: Dino Fancellu

Dino Fancellu — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:51:47 +0000

Damn, its slow.

I was using the Scriptaculous Builder, but found that it was slow.

On a table with 24 columns, 14 rows it took about 1.25 seconds to build, which was unacceptable.

So I saw that Prototype 1.5.2 had its own builder.

I ported to that, app worked as before, just MUCH slower.

About 5-6 seconds to build the above.

So beware, it might be fine for a little bit of building, but does not scale well. I’m on the hunt for a better DOM builder, or I’ll be back to building the big HTML string myself.

By: Jeff McDonald

Jeff McDonald — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:49:08 +0000

Thank you to the community for the few of many tools that I’ve used to accomplish things that I otherwise could not have on my own. Thanks Aaron for working on and improving Mootools so greatly, and for building the great website to support it.

Thanks everyone for the countless hours of time taking what might have started as a personal need and turning it into something that those masses less practiced in JavaScript than you could use so readily!

By: nagaozen

nagaozen — Sat, 19 May 2007 03:53:41 +0000

Nothing much to say… i simply love this way of injecting elements into dom… glad that prototype ppl adopted it ;) congrats

By: Michael Geary

Michael Geary — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:14:00 +0000

Actually, MochiKit uses a fairly different approach, where each DOM element is created via a function call. I should know, since I shamelessly stole that style for my own DOM creation plugin for jQuery. :-)

By: Dean Edwards

Dean Edwards — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:52:29 +0000

To settle the argument, MochiKit did it first.

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:14:56 +0000

Michael: I wasn’t playing “whose on first”. Just wanted to clear the fact that Prototype did not take this syntax from Mootools. That’s all.

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:29:51 +0000

SchizoDuckie, as a matter of fact, this syntax was first discussed in the Prototype Core mailing list on the 5th of February, which makes it about a week before it made its way into Mootools.

By: Aaron Newton

Aaron Newton — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:44:42 +0000

Michael is right. Mootools borrows from Prototype and Dean Edwards and Jquery and others. There’s a lot of unique stuff there, too, and not much is flatly derivative of other libraries, but let’s not kid ourselves here. The teams working on all these libraries are trying to solve their own problems and when there’s a solution around, like domready, there’s no reason to find another one just because someone else wrote it first.

If anything, this kind of syntactical convergence is a good thing. It means that as a developer you can move from one library to another with greater ease, it means that browser vendors like MSFT and Firefox can look at our work and see what we want out of Javascript and consider how to deliver it to us without doing it in competing ways…

I’m happy that Prototype has added this, even if I won’t be using it any time soon.

-one of the Moo guys

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:25:20 +0000

Schizo,

In case you haven’t noticed, the whole js community has been stealing from each other and reinventing the same old wheels for quite a while now. Let’s see…can you can spot any of the MooTools source code that actually comes from other libraries?

By: SchizoDuckie

SchizoDuckie — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:32:16 +0000

Very nicely stolen from MooTools 1.1 ;-)

By: eburhan

eburhan — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:04:05 +0000

very simple :D

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 17 May 2007 06:47:09 +0000

This looks freaking awesome. Thanks!

By: Philip Plante

Philip Plante — Thu, 17 May 2007 06:09:17 +0000

This is cool. I used the Builder included with Scriptaculous once but felt that it just caused me to write mode code than it was worth.

Gonna start playing around with this tonight because I needed to do a bunch of element creation on a project soon, so anything to assist would be nice.