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 1.8, Prototype 1.6 and the Book released!

November 7th, 2007 by Thomas Fuchs, 9 comments »

As part of today’s triple release celebrations, script.aculo.us 1.8 is now available for your download pleasure!

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

  • Prototype 1.6 final
  • 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
  • Duration and distance options for Effect.Shake
  • Performance improvements
  • Tons of bugfixes

To download it, head over to the script.aculo.us site and head for downloads. And all of it is sweetly documented in Christophe’s Book on Prototype and script.aculo.us.

As we head towards script.aculo.us 2.0 (I hope to have a preview release ready soon!), further releases of script.aculo.us 1.x will be bug-fix releases only. If you should stumble upon anything, please follow the directions given on the Prototype contribute page (these instructions are valid for script.aculo.us too).

Last but not least, as always, thanks to the many contributors and the great community!

Have fun!

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9 Comments on “script.aculo.us 1.8, Prototype 1.6 and the Book released!”

  1. 1 benb said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    Wondeful work. Thank you for all of your work. I will also note that the issues in the prior release have been solved relating to the drag/drop/ sortables and IE.

    Thank you again Thomas. It is really great seeing both Prototype and Scriptaculous moving forward in these nice short iterations.

  2. 2 Andrew R said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    Thomas, good job! Way to go!

  3. 3 kossdav said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    Thank you for this release !

    Is it fully backward compatible with scripts written for script.aculo.us 1.7 ?

  4. 4 Sudhir said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    you guys seriously rock. script.aculo.us and prototype are the de facto frameworks wherever i look :D

  5. 5 Del Ben Oscar said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    What a wonderful notice! i really love scriptaculous and prototype, they help me to develop rich applications, thanks

  6. 6 Zuzmic said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    Slider test fails in IE6

  7. 7 Chris said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    I really like the new core Effect "tween" and the options to alter the duration and distance for shake effect. Thanks!

  8. 8 Thomas said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    Is there any documentation on the new features yet?
    I didn’t find any in the wiki.
    Thx.

  9. 9 Guy said at 8:14 pm on November 7th, 2007:

    What font is used for the scriptaculous logo?