Prototype 2

This is a fork of the original Prototype framework, trimmed down to remove a lot of legacy code. Beware of legacy documentation still lingering around.

An object-oriented JavaScript framework

Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. It offers a familiar class-style OO framework, extensive Ajax support, higher-order programming constructs, and easy DOM manipulation.

Targeted platforms

Prototype 2.x targets modern, standard-compliant ES6 browsers.

Using Prototype

To use this version of Prototype in your application, at the moment you need to build it from source and copy dist/prototype.js to a suitable location. Then include it in your HTML like so:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/prototype.js"></script>

Building Prototype from source

prototype.js is a composite file generated from many source files in the src/ directory. To build Prototype, you'll need:

• a copy of the Prototype source tree, either from a distribution tarball or from the Git repository (see below)
• Ruby 1.8.2 or higher (http://www.ruby-lang.org/)
• Rake--Ruby Make (http://rake.rubyforge.org/)
• RDoc, if your Ruby distribution does not include it

From the root Prototype directory:

• rake dist will preprocess the Prototype source using Sprockets and generate the composite dist/prototype.js
• rake package will create a distribution tarball in the pkg/ directory

Contributing to Prototype

Fork https://github.com/wiz78/prototype.git, write your patches, test them, create a PR... :)

Documentation

Please see the online Prototype API: http://api.prototypejs.org.