A call to Prototype developers
In the spirit of our Who’s Using Prototype section, we’d like to add a new section to this site featuring a sample of the best built-with-Prototype third-party libraries available out there.
As we want to make this useful for Prototype users, rewarding for library developers and maintainable (seriously, how frustrating is it to read the description of a lib and find out that the link to it is broken), we’ll keep the number of displayed libraries to a reasonable amount. So there will be some selection.
We’re looking for libraries that:
- work seamlessly with Prototype 1.5,
- are cross-browser,
- are well-maintained,
- are beautifully crafted,
- meet a real need, and
- are distributed under the MIT license (or similar).
juicy extras (really not required, just highly appreciated):
- documentation and
- unit tests (we love those).
If you think that you meet these requirements, we’d love to hear about you! All you need to do is fill this form.
We’re really excited to see what you have cooking.
docmania
Totally unrelated to the above, but too cool not to be mentioned:
- Josh Clark has crafted a superb PDF version of the docs which is available for your downloading pleasure,
- Wolfgang Bartelme has designed a beautiful dashboard widget that allows easy access to the Prototype API,
- and, last but not least, Marius Feraru’s Firefox sidebar is also available for download.
Keep it coming!
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wow! I can’t wait for the libs to drop in…unfortunately I haven’t done any so can’t add to the list. Thanks for the PDF and the sidebar, they’re superb :)
Excuse me,I am from china,My English is not very will,so I do not konw how to report the bug .
Maybe it is not a bug,_^: Open the file called “prototype.js”
on line 235 :if ((pair = pair.split(’=’))[0]) {
if the paramters include some strings as ‘<font face="simhei">simhei</font>‘
it will return the string ‘<font face>
when I use of the FCKedior,I can’t get the full strings ._^
Hi Momo,
Please report bug related issues on the Ruby on Rails trac. There’s info on how to do this in our contribute section.
Thanks!
Thought you’d like to know—clicking on “Contribute” while inside “Tips and Tutorials” (http://prototypejs.org/learn) brings you to the blog, instead!
Happy developing!
Thanks, Brandy. I’ve fixed that.
Hi guys,
I built a charting engine on top of Prototype 1.5.0 called Plotr. It plots barcharts and linecharts (pies are coming) in FF1.5+, OP9.0+, Safari 2.0+ and IE6+. It’s released under the BSD license and at the time of writing it’s pretty stable. More docs/examples are coming. It’s located at http://www.solutoire.com/plotr...
Cheers
I haven’t yet fully documented this, but I figured I’d throw it up as an interesting, albeit archaic, use for Prototype:
I’ve modified the library to run as a server side script under IIS to help out with classic ASP code. Why did I do this, you ask? I unfortunately still have to work with the stuff.
I’ll be revising my site in the future to include some usage tips.
—Dan
Forgot to post link…
http://www.danlynn.net/aspprototype/
Where can i post a bug for 1.5 cause the Ajax.Request is not working firefox, but does in IE
What we need is a CPAN for Prototype!
Well, there is http://openjsan.org/.
GPlotter 0.9 makes use of Prototype for object inheritance as well as AJAX functionality. It be extended by inheriting GPlotter with this object model. The website shows a live example of how it works. Basically you can set up all of your map points in an XML file and have them plotted on the map with GPlotter which makes use of the Google Maps API.
OMG People! Please try not to spam comments with stuff that should be elsewhere … if you’ve got bug reports, do a little research on where to put them.
I’d like to nominate Dan Webb’s LowPro for inclusion to the small list of quality add-ons for Prototype.
Morgan: Don’t worry, Low Pro is in there.
Small calender based on prototype and scriptaculous. Licences under MIT License.
http://www.xutopia.com/kalander/
Prototype Window
http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/
Scriptaculous (lol)
Rico – another no brainer
prototype 1.5 is not work on vista IE7. but 1.4 was work on vista IE7.
i like to upgrade prototype.. but it can’be
plz check in vista IE7
thank you.
@yongchul Shin: Prototype is fully compatible with IE7. If you have found a bug, please open a new ticket on trac. Thank you.