[Catalyst] s/HTML::Ajax/HTML::Prototype/

[Sebastian Riedel]

Am 14.04.2005 um 19:49 schrieb Jose Nyimi:
>> That's great that you have a library you can use now, but why
>> the name change because of it? I think HTML::Ajax is much
>> more descriptive, as HTML::Prototype sounds like something
>> completely different. If you _must_ change it, how about
>> Javascript::Ajax?
>>
>
> Agreed,
> It always nice that name of a module reflects its purpose.
> Think of CPAN search ...
> Image somebody looking for perl module related to Ajax because
> He just dicovered the concept.
> Do you will end up to HTML::Prototype during his CPAN searching? :-)

We had the same discussion on irc. :)

The problem is that "Prototype" is not just for Ajax, it's a general 
purpose js library with all kind of functions.
There are lots of effects too. (see 
http://mir.aculo.us/demos/effects/demo1.html)

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sebastian