Prototype: Core Google Group

Re: Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-24T10:54:27Z

We previously used different variants of that and moved away from it.

It's slow and full of inconsistencies across browsers.

Re: Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-24T00:37:00Z

How about this sweet little scripty I found[1], call it a textarea
hack:

function html_entity_decode(str) {
var ta=document.createElement("tex tarea");
ta.innerHTML=str.replace(/</g, "<").replace(/>/g,">");
return ta.value;

[1] [link]

Re: [Prototype-core] Re: Extra underscore in Ajax.Request.parameters

2009-11-23T23:39:11Z

You're right: it's POST not GET:

if (params = Object.toQueryString(params)) {
if (this.method == 'get')
this.url += (this.url.include('?') ? '&' : '?') + params;
else if (/Konqueror|Safari|KHTML/.test (navigator.userAgent))
params += '&_=';
}

But it's not empty POST bodies as it's only added if params != "".

Re: Extra underscore in Ajax.Request.parameters

2009-11-23T16:51:06Z

So you don't know which version it is, but you know that it's not used
any more? Sorry, I'm not following such logic.

From what I remember, it was Safari 2.x that had problems with empty
POST bodies. We still support Safari 2.0.4 (but not any other lower
version of 2.x), so if 2.0.4 is affected by this bug, we can't just

Sprockets quesion

2009-11-23T10:01:57Z

Hi,

Sorry if this isn't the right place to discuss sprockets.

If I want to list dependent files in order, but not concatenate them, is that possible with command line sprocketize?

This is so I can set up a project to allow concatenated or non-concatenated js to be used, but still use the dependency management. The later case is for debugging etc.

Who is using Prototype another prominent Company

2009-11-21T12:03:20Z

Hey Guys!

Thanks for your good work!!

Just wanted to say that another prominent user of prototype is Palm.
They use it as their base for Mojo SDK and webOS.

best regards,

Alex

Extra underscore in Ajax.Request.parameters

2009-11-20T02:39:34Z

Hi,

Prototype adds a extra parameter &_= to every GET Ajax.Request done by
any WebKit browser. This is done to fix a bug in an old version of
Safari.

I'd like to see this feature removed for these reasons:

- That version is of Safari is not used any more. (which version was it anyway?)
- It breaks my server side code

Re: Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-21T23:53:49Z

Good point (and sorry if the tone of my earlier post came out wrong,
that wasn't my intention).

There's indeed a number of entities which are part of the HTL 4.01 spec
[1].

It's legitimate to want to be able to convert those, notably when
dealing with legacy or external content.

However, given the sheer size of the code compared its usage (now that

Re: Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-21T22:28:43Z

Tobie,

That's rather flip, don't you think? How does character encoding
choice solve " or  ?

These entities are valid HTML, regardless of character encoding. There
are sometimes very good reasons for using them. It's fine to say
String#unescapeHTML won't handle these because it's too big a problem

Re: Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-21T15:05:42Z

Is it possible to manipulate the encoding of a string to convert HTML
entities? I'm trying to display the string in the title attribute of
an anchor. I'm using PJSON to get rss feeds from google's feed API, so
I have no ability to preprocess the data.

Re: Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-21T01:10:24Z

Thanks for your input.

A correct character encoding should be all you really need to handle
such entities.

Best,

Tobie

Re: [Prototype-core] Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-20T21:01:11Z

I came across this problem myself. I think prototype should provide some
type of API for things like this. In all my apps, I have a prototype_ext.js
file that make small modifications/enhancements to prototype. It would be
nice to be able to do something like this:

prototype_ext.js:
Prototype.HTMLEntities.add('&b lah;', '0x0039');

Support full HTML set in (un)escapeHTML

2009-11-20T20:47:37Z

I was using unescapeHTML when I noticed that it was missing many of
the encoded characters in this string I passed it. I went and checked
the code, it seems that these functions only deal with about 3 out of
hundreds of characters. " ' for example.

I came across a script which handles the named entities, maybe we can

Re: Genereic Function Benchmark

2009-11-20T08:26:38Z

Ok Thanks, I'll try this

Re: [Prototype-core] Genereic Function Benchmark

2009-11-19T18:02:18Z

You could try unittest_js'[1] benchmark function. It's at the very end
of the file. It'll help with the timing. Other than that, you may like
the page speed extension for firebug.

[1] [link]

Allen Madsen
[link]