This is the same old discussion that's been going on for months and I wonder if it will ever get resolved to the satisfaction of those of us who use the tool to enhance our sites.
>From what I can tell, there seems to be an uber-geek philosophy of "make it better and they will come" and, to a degree that's correct. The problem is, history is filled with technically superior products that ultimately failed because of poor marketing and/or not listening to their users (betamax vs vhs and myspace vs facebook for two glowing examples). My fear is that prototype will ultimately face the same fate... be a technically superior product with a few guys pitching in and carrying the weight (anyone who follows this feed knows who the guys are who always pitch in with an answer) while marketing, support, easy access to developed libs and all the other goodies go ignored which causes adoption of the product to dwindle because these things exist on another platform. Why is this important? I have a buddy that has a very successful site written in cold fusion, he developed the site just to familiarize himself with the language. Turns out, the site took off, he quit is day job, ran the site, and recently got a contract for heaps and tons of $$$ for the site. The catch? He has to rewrite the site in either .php or .net because the buyer won't take it as a CF site. Does anyone want to end up with a site that, when its time to sell, will be told, "that's all great but we're a jquery shop so you have to get rid of prototype... nobody uses that anymore!" >From a product standpoint, I'm sure the developers have their hands full and they do a really great job delivering a product that, for the most part, takes us away from browser level coding in a reliable and consistent manner. Personally, I am extremely appreciative of their efforts and I hope they keep up the good work! We all know what the but is... But I do think they need to set some community direction and allow the product to grow. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:11 AM, shellster <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm seriously considering building my own site to start adding things > like community documentation, additions to prototype, and plug-ins. > While the Prototype Dev's certainly don't owe me anything, I've been > pretty disappointed in there response time to user requests and even > submitted patches. I think if someone were to essentially "fork" the > project (me), but still give prototype all the credit it deserves, it > might be the best thing for the community. If I could generate enough > community buzz, and add a bunch of well written features to prototype, > perhaps then, the devs would start pulling some of the changes back > into prototype's core. > > On Aug 13, 4:43 pm, Cantrelle Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm happy to see that the topic is not dead and that some ideas are > > coming out ... > > (too much work sometimes) > > > > @Sander: maybe I'm missing something (sorry in this case), but do you > > have finally any answer (from Prototype's side) concerning your email > > your decribed on th 20 Jul ? > > > > Regards > > Vinc. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
