Prototype 1.5.1 and Scriptaculous 1.7.1 betas are out!

View blog reactions Written on April 12, 2007 by Chris Heald

See the Prototype announcement and the Scriptaculous announcement for more info and changelogs.

In short, it’s a lot faster, memory leaks are fixed, and there are a number of new features including sound support (which I don’t think I’d use, but which is still cool). I tried it out tonight in my personal work, and the effects are significantly smoother. My browser didn’t experience any hitching during the various effects (it normally does), and the AJAX stuff seems faster too, but I didn’t benchmark it.

This is beta, so standard caveats apply. Also, the standard rails “javascriptincludetag :defaults” won’t work - there are a number of new files, so you’ll need to set up the includes manually yourself.

I did it like so:

<%=javascript_include_tag "prototype" %>
<%=javascript_include_tag "builder" %>
<%=javascript_include_tag "scriptaculous" %>
<%=javascript_include_tag "dragdrop" %>
<%=javascript_include_tag "controls" %>
<%=javascript_include_tag "effects" %>
<%=javascript_include_tag "slider" %>

Enjoy!

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