Prototype Javascript Framework

Today we’re announcing Release Candidate 3 of Prototype 1.6.1. Among the highlights of this release are official Chrome support, improved IE8 compatibility, faster generation of API documentation with PDoc, and lots of bug fixes.

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Today we tagged the first public release candidate of Prototype 1.6.1. (What happened to RC1? Long story.) While there are more minor fixes we’d like to get into this release, we decided an interim release was necessary because of the final release of Internet Explorer 8 last week.

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Over at SvN, Sam announced the 1.0 release of Sprockets, the new dependency management and concatenation tool that makes it easy to modularize your JavaScript. Sprockets is Prototype’s new build system, but it’s also been extracted into a Ruby library so you can use it anywhere you write JavaScript.

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Man, it's quiet around here. Interested in doing some pimpin'?

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When we first launched the Linkedin Prototype Group, we weren’t necessarily expecting it to be such a success–it’s over 800 members strong and counting.

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We decided it’s finally time to implement an idea we had long ago.

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Now that 1.6.0.3 is out, let’s talk about the Prototype community.

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Yesterday we released Prototype 1.6.0.3, the result of some much-needed bug fixes, and a stopgap release on the road to 1.6.1.

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We’re very happy to announce a new addition to the Prototype bookshelf: core committer Andrew Dupont’s Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us published by Apress.

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Prototype Core is happy to announce the first Prototype Developer Day! The Prototype Developer Day is going to be a recurring event bringing together Prototype Core members and users from the Prototype community to share experiences, offer insight into what’s coming up, and discuss topics like contribution, support, and the Prototype ecosystem. If you’re big on Prototype, you cannot miss this!

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Subscribers to the Rails Spinoffs mailing list should switch to our new, better-named list: Prototype & script.aculo.us.

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Today’s interviewee is Ryan Johnson of Control Suite fame.

Ryan just launched PersonalGrid, a new file sharing and publishing web application, along with a complete overhaul of Control Suite, now renamed LivePipe UI.

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Piotr Dachtera is the lead developer behind the recently-launched Live Chess, a Prototype-based, Comet-powered live chess game.

We talked to him about the client-side challenges he faced along the way.

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Good news! Google now offers a cached, compressed copy of Prototype on its high-speed content distribution network via the AJAX Libraries API.

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Hot on the heels of last week’s interview with Sergio Pereira, we were lucky enough to catch up with Amy Hoy. Amy defines herself as a informally educated designer-turned-interface-developer who also programs (and writes, and speaks, and takes pretty pictures). She’s also the co-creator of Twistori.

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