Thomas Fuchs
Hi, I'm Thomas Fuchs. I'm the author of Zepto.js, of script.aculo.us, and I'm a Ruby on Rails core alumnus. With Amy Hoy I'm building cheerful software, like Noko Time Tracking and Every Time Zone and write books like Retinafy.me.
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script.aculo.us 1.8 preview

October 12th, 2007

What’s in for you (compared to script.aculo.us 1.7):

  • Prototype 1.6 (lastest trunk version)
  • Complete rewrite of Ajax.InPlaceEditor and Ajax.InPlaceCollectionEditor
  • Full CSS inheritance in Effect.Morph
  • New core effect: Effect.Tween
  • Sound: play mp3 files for sound effects; uses native playback on IE and available plugins whereever possible
  • Performance improvements
  • Tons of bugfixes

As always, you’ll find more detailed information in the CHANGELOG.

Note that script.aculo.us 1.8 will mark a feature freeze and only bugfixes will be applied to the 1.x branch of script.aculo.us in the future. script.aculo.us 2.0 is basically a complete rewrite to make things more awesometastic, but I’m getting ahead of myself now—expect something in the near future. 🙂

Download it over at the script.aculo.us site, 196k zip file.