Using the Prototype JavaScript Library

by Tom

Prototype is am amazing, well thought and well written piece of standards-compliant JavaScript code takes a lot of the burden associated with creating rich, highly interactive web pages that characterize the Web 2.0 off your back. Unfortunately, until recently there was a lack of documentation for this great library, meaning that if you wanted to use it, you needed to really hack it to make it work. Now, the makers of the library have made Using prototype.js documentation available to the general public. For a lot of developers out there  having access to good documentation associated with this library will completely change its rate of adoption. This is good news for JavaScript developers.

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mark wong-vanharen

FWIW, the author of this documentation is not one of the prototype library’s contributors.

Sergio Pereira

That’s right. I just had to do the brute-force learning as many others and wrote down what I learnt. I’m not part of the prototype development effort.

Alan Grobert

I would like to use the library to transform xml responses using xsl style sheets. Is it possible to do this with prototype.js alone?

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