Comments on: Where is all the Prototype Documentation?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49:57 +0000

Here is another source for Prototype documentation with many examples:

http://www.formar.se/prototype/

By: mixonic

mixonic — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:50:10 +0000

Um, there is no official and constantly up-to-date documentation, and that is a huge deal. I know I can go to api.rubyonrails.com for _now_ documentation, regardless of what old tutorials I’ve read. Same with most frameworks and languages. This is just a huge glaring fault in prototype, and a list of blogs and admittedly old tutorials doesn’t solve it.

Sorry man, close but no cigar. That said, I’m still using it, and I’m bookmarking your page as another spot to hunt down those elusive docs

-mix

By: 化工展览网

化工展览网 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:58:38 +0000

Useful post. But I'm missing one link:
http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Prototype

By: maYO

maYO — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:45:16 +0000

Useful post. But I'm missing one link:
http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Prototype
I use this one the most as it has some easy understandable examples.

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:11:08 +0000

Thanks for posting this. One reason I started using JQuery was the lack of good documentation for Prototype and what looked like a completely fragmented effort to maintain the library. When I looked at JQuery, not only did it give me the same functionality as Prototype but everything seemed substantially more organized. That included the everything from documentation and plugins to the project leaders and community mailing list. There just seems to be more synergy in the JQuery camp.

The last thing I've heard about the Prototype group getting organized came in this post by, I believe, Justin Palmer:

http://encytemedia.com/blog/articles/2006/9/5/the-flurry-continues-more-prototype-updates

No new updates since then (at least none that are obvious). Sam Stephenson, the creator of Prototype, last posted an update on 5/23/2006 which didn't give much direction either. He wrote:

"I don’t have a roadmap for Prototype, but version 2.0—the next major release after 1.5—will focus on polishing what we have now, not on adding new functionality."

So its hard for developers to get a sense for where the project is going if there's no indication of a future path.

I hope this isn't interpreted as a dig at Prototype because its not meant to be. I'm simply expressing some of the troubles I've encountered (and others I'm sure) and why I chose to move on to another library.