Prototype JavaScript Framework

In addition to releasing Prototype 1.6.1, I’m pleased to announce that Andrew Dupont and Tobie Langel now officially head up the Prototype Core Team. They’ll be in charge of maintaining Prototype, deciding what makes the cut for new releases, and handling day-to-day operations. Th...

We’re pleased to announce the release of Prototype 1.6.1 today. This version features improved performance, an element metadata storage system, new mouse events, and compatibility with the latest browsers. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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...

Man, it's quiet around here. Interested in doing some pimpin'? WAIT! COME BACK. Code pimping. You know? The thing I'd discussed before? Forgive my earlier informality. I see now how my words could have been confusing...

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. Also, at the time, there wasn’t much you could do after having joined the group. This h...

Now that 1.6.0.3 is out, let’s talk about the Prototype community. A lot of people have been commenting on how quiet it’s been around here over the last few months. There are several reasons: We were quite busy with behind-the-scenes stuff. Moving to GitHub and Lighthouse was quite the task. As...

We decided it’s finally time to implement an idea we had long ago. I’m an avid reader of the blog of Wil Shipley, a man in the business of writing great apps for OS X. His running code improvment series, Pimp My Code, takes submissions from readers who think their code needs refactoring. Th...

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. It’s a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all users of Prototype 1.6. ...

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. Ob...

Prototype Core is happy to announce the first Prototype Developer Day...

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

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. H...