For those concerned about the fact that these helpers use ProtoType and
Scriptaculous, it should be noted that Mochikit 1.3 will include
equivalent functionality. This should make it seamless to use Mochikit
instead with no or minimal changes to the helper functions.
There's several people now working on the RailsHelpers package to keep
it up with the Rails version, as well as the unit tests. The one big
thing this package does not include is the Javascript Generator object
used for the very very new Rails feature (only in svn I think) called
Rails Javascript Scripts (or something like that, RJS). Here's an
example:
page.insert_html :bottom, 'list',
content_tag("li", "Fox")
page.visual_effect :highlight, 'list', :duration => 3
page.replace_html 'header',
'RJS Template Test Complete!'
As one can see, it makes AJAX so trivial, you can do a ton of stuff not
knowing Javascript at all. These functions just generate some
Javascript that does the work for you. I would like to have something
similar for use in Python, anyone else interested in helping out on
this?
Since this is just generating Javascript from a function, I see nothing
particularly framework specific in it, so we should all be able to work
together on it. :)
