Painless JavaScript Using Prototype

There is a great article recently published over at Sitepoint.com by Dan Webb about the Prototype.js library that we have focused on during our last three workshops. This article is a starter’s guide that covers most of the basic functions Prototype has to offer, as well as a lot of un-documented functions. This is an excellent read; I have learned a ton of stuff about Prototype I didn’t know before and suggest you take some time to read it as well if you develop with the library.

Prototype is an object oriented JavaScript library (written by Sam Stephenson and friends) that makes JavaScript fun. So it says on the site, anyway. Those of you who are familiar with the open source community’s latest and greatest application framework, Rails, may recognise Prototype as it actually forms the backbone of Rails’ JavaScript helper. However, Prototype can be used independently of Rails to aid the coding of many JavaScript doodads and Web 2.0 thingy wangles.

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