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.
Prototype currently targets the following platforms:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, version 6.0 and higher
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and higher
- Apple Safari 2.0.4 and higher
- Opera 9.25 and higher
- Chrome 1.0 and higher
To use Prototype in your application, download the latest release from the
Prototype web site (https://prototypejs.org/download) 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>
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 (https://www.ruby-lang.org/)
- Rake--Ruby Make (https://rake.rubyforge.org/)
- RDoc, if your Ruby distribution does not include it
From the root Prototype directory,
rake distwill preprocess the Prototype source using Sprockets and generate the compositedist/prototype.js.rake packagewill create a distribution tarball in thepkg/directory.
Check out the Prototype source with
$ git clone git:https://github.com/sstephenson/prototype.git
$ cd prototype
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update vendor/sprockets vendor/pdoc vendor/unittest_js
Find out how to contribute: https://prototypejs.org/contribute.
Please see the online Prototype API: https://api.prototypejs.org.