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sriatoook.de

Apr 14, 2005, 7:16 PM

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HTML::Ajax is now obsolete, because our friends from Ruby on Rails
already maintain a very sweet JavaScript library named Prototype which
happens to be under MIT license.
So we decided it would be better just to port their (very nice) helpers
and concentrate on more important stuff (like getting Cat5 released).
:)

It's actually available from the svn repository and soon on CPAN.

Have fun!

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sebastian

Thomas.Markatbls.gov

Apr 14, 2005, 7:28 PM

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That's great that you have a library you can use now, but why the name
change because of it? I think HTML::Ajax is much more descriptive, as
HTML::Prototype sounds like something completely different. If you _must_
change it, how about Javascript::Ajax?

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> HTML::Ajax is now obsolete, because our friends from Ruby on
> Rails already maintain a very sweet JavaScript library named
> Prototype which happens to be under MIT license.
> So we decided it would be better just to port their (very
> nice) helpers and concentrate on more important stuff (like
> getting Cat5 released).
> :)
>
> It's actually available from the svn repository and soon on CPAN.
>
> Have fun!
>
> --
> sebastian
>
>
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josenyimiatskynet.be

Apr 14, 2005, 7:49 PM

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> -----Message d'origine-----
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> [mailto:catalyst-bounces [at] lists] De la part de
> Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR
> Envoy? : jeudi 14 avril 2005 19:29
> ? : 'Sebastian Riedel'; Catalyst List'
> Objet : RE: [Catalyst] s/HTML::Ajax/HTML::Prototype/
>
>
> That's great that you have a library you can use now, but why
> the name change because of it? I think HTML::Ajax is much
> more descriptive, as HTML::Prototype sounds like something
> completely different. If you _must_ change it, how about
> Javascript::Ajax?
>

Agreed,
It always nice that name of a module reflects its purpose.
Think of CPAN search ...
Image somebody looking for perl module related to Ajax because
He just dicovered the concept.
Do you will end up to HTML::Prototype during his CPAN searching? :-)

BR,
Jos?.

sriatoook.de

Apr 14, 2005, 8:08 PM

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Am 14.04.2005 um 19:49 schrieb Jose Nyimi:
>> That's great that you have a library you can use now, but why
>> the name change because of it? I think HTML::Ajax is much
>> more descriptive, as HTML::Prototype sounds like something
>> completely different. If you _must_ change it, how about
>> Javascript::Ajax?
>>
>
> Agreed,
> It always nice that name of a module reflects its purpose.
> Think of CPAN search ...
> Image somebody looking for perl module related to Ajax because
> He just dicovered the concept.
> Do you will end up to HTML::Prototype during his CPAN searching? :-)

We had the same discussion on irc. :)

The problem is that "Prototype" is not just for Ajax, it's a general
purpose js library with all kind of functions.
There are lots of effects too. (see
http://mir.aculo.us/demos/effects/demo1.html)

--
sebastian

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