Prototype 1.7 Released

[whoisgregg]

From the announcement [prototypejs.org]:

Last week, we tagged the first stable release of 1.7, marking the end of a far-too-long release cycle. We've made more than 50 improvements since the last stable version and are already working on 1.7.0.1.

With this release, Prototype now uses the Sizzle selector engine [prototypejs.org], or let's you choose your own.

[Fotiman]

I don't think I realized this, but it appears there is no minified version of prototype. Odd.

[coopster]

Odd indeed. Usually the dev teams put the minified version out there for the average user and leave a link for the development download version (full source, non-minified). I'll bet somebody missed a beat over there and put the wrong version out because the rest can be pulled from github.

Don't forget you can always minify it yourself. Google has actually made this quite easy. I still have the minifier from the Yahoo engineering team but am slowing easing into Closure Compiler [code.google.com].