JavaScript: Prototype JS library

I would like to recommend that we use the JavaScript library
 
Prototype as part of the Scooby project. The library
provides some  
very useful utility functions that could really help to
speed up the  
development of Scooby. For example, instead of this:


	var fooElement = document.getElementById("foo")

you can do this:

	var fooElement = $("foo");

the $ operator will also handle arrays. So you can do this:

	var elementArray = $("foo", "bar",
baz");

This just scratches the surface of what it can do. The
library also  
has interesting functionality for getting at form elements,
build  
hash objects, object ranges, enumeration, etc. It even has
some  
fairly nice Ajax support as well. I encourage you to check
it out.  
You can find the main site at:

http://prototype.conio.ne
t/


There is a volunteer who maintains a pretty good set of
documentation  
for the Prototype framework and you can find it here:

http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html

I think this functionality is pretty low level and could
really help  
us. If you like Prototype, I encourage you to check out two
more  
libraries:

- Scriptaculous, a component and effects library built on
top of  
Prototype, http://script.aculo.us/
- Rico, a library of rich JavaScript components (also built
using  
Prototype), http://openrico.org/

I would recommend that we consider adopting Prototype into
Scooby and  
Cosmo's codebase. Scriptaculous and Rico are interesting
and I hope  
that my mentioning them here will spur some discussion about
them and  
who knows, maybe they might be good candidates for inclusion
into our  
projects as well.

Please post back to the list and tell us what you think.

--> John



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