Comments on: Simplest Prototype & scripty Slideshow

By: A_Flama

A_Flama — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:15:11 +0000

Thanks so much for this post, saved me some coding time!

By: Jon shipman

Jon shipman — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:08:01 +0000

So I was working in an old version of Magento for a client and this code was wrecking my brain. Apparently if you’re on Proto 1.6.0.3 you have to use Effect.Fade() and Effect.Appear() instead of fade() and appear().

if(visible.length>1) Effect.Fade(visible.last(),{duration:.3});
else Effect.Appear(imgs.last(),{ duration: .3,

By: qFox

qFox — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:43:00 +0000

Here’s my version: http://qfox.nl/weblog?181.

Slideshows are all about fading these days. The rest is sugar…

By: Simplest jQuery And Prototype Slideshows | Free Web Resources

Simplest jQuery And Prototype Slideshows | Free Web Resources — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:03:16 +0000

[...] that, Thomas Fuchs, the author of the script.aculo.us, has also created one using Prototype & Scripty [...]

By: sethaurus

sethaurus — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:27:10 +0000

I think the fact that you find the jQuery version ‘too magic’ is indicative of the philosophical differences between JQ and Protoype/Scripty, rather than an objective problem with Simon’s code. I used to find jQuery code unnecessarily terse and illegible, especially when it employed `.end()` call-chaining, but gradually it has come to seem natural to me. The Prototype coding style encourages idiomatic javascript, with named variables and ordinary control structures, whereas the jQuery style is more like a little DSL for the DOM, where logic is done in call-chaining and verbosity is considered redundant.

By: Radoslav Stankov

Radoslav Stankov — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:32:56 +0000

Looks nice, I use such quick liners for rapid prototyping ( I had 5 – line tab panel ). If you want to make it even smaller you could replace img.visible() function with Element.visible