12 Responses for "Prototype XUL JavaScript Framework 1.6.0_rc1"

1. Larry Osborn November 14th, 2007 at 7:26 pm 1

   This is great! I’ve been using the 1.4 version for some time and haven’t been too thrilled with it. I’m glad to see you took the time to do this. Thanks a bunch.

2. Adam November 14th, 2007 at 9:19 pm 2

   Thanks for the support! Unfortunately the day after I released this, 1.6.0 final came out. I will hopefully port the new version over within the next week.

3. Larry Osborn November 14th, 2007 at 9:26 pm 3

   My biggest gripe is not being able to use Ajax requests sucessfully… do you know why something like this wont work?
   new Ajax.Updater(content.document.getElementsByTagName(’body’)[0],’http://slashdot.org/’);

   When I use the traditionall XMLHttpRequest object, it works. It seems to fail around line 1468 (Ajax.Updater).

4. Adam November 14th, 2007 at 9:34 pm 4

   As I mentioned, the library wasnt fully tested. If there are any JS errors thrown from Prototype, its most likely something I missed (I will test the Updater in a little). I would make sure that content.document.getElementsByTagName(’body’)[0] is a valid node. Selecting nodes and elements in Chrome can sometimes be a little tricky.

5. Larry Osborn November 14th, 2007 at 9:43 pm 5

   Yeah it should be a valid node. I had the same problem with the 1.4 version that was ported a while back. I tried fixing it but.. wow what a headache :). Here’s an example: http://cornsyrup.org/~larry/testextension/content/init.js

   I made a sample xpi here: http://cornsyrup.org/~larry/testextension.xpi

   Cheers,
   Larry

6. Adam November 24th, 2007 at 5:26 am 6

   Sorry I didnt see your post. It got stuck in the moderator queue. Yea, you are right, the body is loading. Im working on converting the new version of prototype today/tomorrow, so I will address those Ajax issues. As a side note, there are better ways to access the document object. Your way will run that function for every frame/iframe and also wont target tabs that load behind the “top” level window. document.XXX is only accessing the top window. A better way to access the document so you can keep taps on the tabs is like this:

   
function onPageLoad(event) {
if (event.originalTarget instanceof HTMLDocument) {
var doc = event.originalTarget;

   if (event.originalTarget.defaultView.frameElement) {
//return; // Put this here if you dont want to run this function again for Frames/IFrame
} else {
doc.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
[...]
}
}
}


7. Raphael November 27th, 2007 at 3:30 pm 7

   Ah, this is great! Thanks a lot!

8. Adam November 28th, 2007 at 2:31 am 8

   As another side note… you dont need to access body by tag name… You can do document.body or for my example doc.body.

9. SeanQ December 6th, 2007 at 11:01 pm 9

   Adam, do you have a 1.6.0 final version (in any state of untested)? I’ll diff your version to the original rc1 in the meantime and start playing with it.

   Thanks,
   Sean

10. Adam December 7th, 2007 at 12:55 am 10

    @Sean

    I know I promised to get on the 1.6 final. I have been days away from launching a new product, so all of my time is focused on that. If your diff-changes work out I will be happy to post it here. If not I will try and get to making a new version over the weekend or early next week.

    Thanks!

11. abhinav February 18th, 2008 at 9:45 am 11

    now that, the prototype 1.6 has been released, can you please update the library to final version? i wish to use it in a project of mine.

    thanks

12. Adam February 19th, 2008 at 3:10 am 12

    Newest version of the library can be found at: http://www.adamgotterer.com/2008/02/19/prototype-xul-javascript-framework-1602/