We use prototype.js and scriptaculous for a number of our sites and applications - they provide great foundations with which to build advanced javascript applications. However they can be fairly large and take a while to download.
As I’ve previously mentioned on this blog, you can get pre-shrunk versions of both prototype and scriptaculous which [...]
Landcare Australia today launched their CarbonSmart website allowing Australians to purchase Carbon Offsets directly from Landcare:
I was involved in the development of the calculator that is used to determine your CO2 emissions. It utilises a number of Web 2.0 technologies, mainly AJAX using prototype. Glenn McGrath (aussie cricket legend) was involved in promoting the project [...]
To help speed up the load time of your prototype.js and scriptaculous pages, you can now download fully compressed versions of all the required files from the ‘prototype-core’ group on google thanks to John David-Dalton (original post on Ajaxian):
http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core
This reduces the size of prototype and scriptaculous to 64k total! Be sure to [...]