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 1.7.1 beta 2 for your download pleasure

April 28th, 2007 by Thomas Fuchs, 14 comments »

There’s a brand new 1.7.1 beta 2 release of script.aculo.us.

In script.aculo.us itself there have been only two small bug fixes for the autocompleting code since beta 1, but the main reason to get this release out is the included Release candidate 4 of Prototype 1.5.1, which has lots and lots of overall improvements, performance tweaks and some cool new features.

So, go ahead and download script.aculo.us 1.7.1 beta 2.

More stuff is up ahead, and I hope some of it will make it in before my RailsConf tutorial—let’s see!

Beta warning: Things might not work as you might expect, though they really should—if you hit any problems, please use the bug tracker and give reports. The same that applies to Prototype applies for script.aculo.us too, so read the how to contribute page to see how you can help out here!

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14 Comments on “script.aculo.us 1.7.1 beta 2 for your download pleasure”

  1. 1 David G. Paul said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Had a few problems with Sortables, and Droppables in this release…looks like it’s present in the older releases too though.

    Found a case where the only way to add new sortables / droppables to existing ones was to destroy and recreate them… except Sortable.destroy doesn’t get rid of the. The previously created ones can still be viewed in Firebug!

  2. 2 Ben Newbery said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Great to see you keeping on the ball, saves us some work. Keep it up!

  3. 3 Tom said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    You may find this interesting, looks like navy.com is using effect.morph on the homepage!

  4. 4 Thomas said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Thanks for your great work !
    Scriptaculous is the best javascript Framework ever made ! ;)
    I made a compressed file using both prototype and scriptaculous, available at this location : http://protoculous.wikeo.be

    Thanks for your feedbacks !

  5. 5 DragoraN said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    What about sortable tables?

  6. 6 Sat_ said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    will you one day provide a one file only script.aculo.us?

    this would be very nice for my server.

    thanks

  7. 7 Pencil said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Hiho
    Thank you for this great JS-Library. Is this small bug fixed in beta 2: http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/discuss/Effect.Move
    ?
    Cu

  8. 8 mazenovi said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    I’ve a problem with IE 6 & 7 which’s persisting with all the version (1.7.0 & 1.7.1 beta2) of script.aculo.us.
    I have an index list(ul) of droppable elements(li) which each contains a list (ul) of draggable elements(li). The idea is any draggable elements can be dragged in any droppable element, then the index list is entirly rebuilt and put in Ajax response to refresh the index list (ul). It works one time but never after the Ajax refresh with IE 6 & 7. All is ok with FireFox. There are more details here about this bug on this post http://www.symfony-project.com/forum/index.php/t/6361/.
    I search a lot this last days and I found no way.
    If anybody has suggestions it will be great

  9. 9 Art said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Great work. Just wondering, now that the final version of prototype 1.5.1, is this the best release to use with it of will a new version come out that includes it?

  10. 10 Morten said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Using this release, I get the infinite recursion bug mentioned here (in the first comment)
    http://prototypejs.org/2007/3/9/prototype-1-5-1-rc1

    Any work around for this?

  11. 11 James said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Having a little trouble with the drag/drop code. I have a long list of items I wish to make droppable. To accommodate the long list, I gave my "dropbox" fixed positing, however, as I scroll the screen, the actual droparea scrolls up the screen even though the "dropbox" stays fixed.

  12. 12 min said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Are there any plans for adding morphing from one cssRule to another?

  13. 13 mazenovi said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Solution to my last post :
    http://www.symfony-project.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=27549&SQ=5f9f3891ac386a09268f67e890610d38&
    not a problem with beta version … some lines are missing for IE!! I go to report bug & fix.

  14. 14 Giancarlo Di Massa said at 1:36 pm on April 28th, 2007:

    Hi,
    I would like to point out that if you got an error on line 260 of effects.js with v1.71 beta 2, add this line just before:

    if (typeof options == "undefined") var options=Object;