Thomas Fuchs
Hi, I'm Thomas Fuchs. I'm the author of the script.aculo.us user interface JavaScript library, a member of the Prototype core team and a Ruby on Rails core alumnus. You're using my work every day, even if you're not aware of it (sounds creepy, I know!). Need JS foo? Hire me.

script.aculo.us 1.7

January 19th, 2007 by Thomas Fuchs, 9 comments »

On the heels of the recent release galore here’s one more:

script.aculo.us 1.7 is final!—download away!

So what’s new? Basically, the new stuff is all about Effect.Morph and all the goodness you can read about here and here.

Of course, we’re on Prototype 1.5 final now.

As always, get the fine print from the CHANGELOG.

Now, if script.aculo.us only had an API documentation like the new one for Prototype. The wiki is great, but a more complete, up-to-date and coherent resource would be even better. Well, let’s see about that… ;)

Of course thanks to the contributors. And yeah, I know that there are quite a bunch of tickets and patches pending—let’s get this one out first and get all that love in the next version. :)

NOTE: This is not the version included in Rails 1.2.1.—. You can use this version with Rails 1.2.1, just download and overwrite the files provided by Rails! The next Rails release will include this, of course. :)

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9 Comments on “script.aculo.us 1.7”

  1. 1 Jai said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    Hey, why not add a class feature to Effect.Morph?

    What I mean is, instead of typing your new style, quoted, in JavaScript, why can’t we specify an existing class to morph the element to?

    Something like:
    new Effect.Morph(‘elementId’, { class: ‘newClass’ });

  2. 2 Thijs van der Vosen said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    Sounds like it’s time for a Rails 1.2.2 release? ;)

  3. 3 Thomas Fuchs said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    @Tom: Shoot me mail so I can get together a list of doc wizards (see the sidebar under heading "CONTACT ME"!). You’re very welcome!

  4. 4 Tom said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    I’m happy to help with the S.a.us documentation, particularly Draggables/Sortables. I’ve been meaning to add to the wiki, but somehow never quite get around to it. With a specific assignment and a deadline, I could get something done for you, though.

    Thanks for the great work.

  5. 5 Jonas Schneider said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    Good Job, Thomas!

  6. 6 Thomas Fuchs said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    Jai: You actually can:

    $(‘blah’).morph(‘.classname’);

  7. 7 Steve said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    And the updates just keep on coming! You guys are doing a great job – it’s hard to keep up. I have compressed versions available again at:
    http://www.stevekallestad.com/blog/scriptaculous_17_compressed.html

    I didn’t catch the release, I didn’t realize that it was coming so quickly after beta 2.

    I’ve been meaning to add to the wiki as well, but I haven’t gotten around to it. There’s always the concern that I don’t know what I’m talking about :) . I really like the way the prototype documentation is laid out and it would be great to follow their example.

  8. 8 Jules said at 5:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    I’ve found a bug in final 1.7 that was not in the beta. Thomas, please email me for more details.

  9. 9 Sebastian said at 6:32 pm on January 19th, 2007:

    Is this the version included with Rails 1.2.1? Seems like there were still commits after 1.2.1 was released.