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Re:Ask HN: Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? by jrockway on Monday April 28, 2008 @12:08AM (#175303)
Prototype is really a horrible framework. It works by adding methods to every class in the language, even when they don't make sense. This makes for a bit of syntactic sugar, but it also ensures that you can't use other frameworks and that custom code might become very hard to debug.

For your own sake, use anything else.

Re:Ask HN: Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? by sc on Monday April 28, 2008 @08:02AM (#175557)
Layering frameworks probably isn't a good idea to begin with. Prototype does seem, unfortunately, more powerful than jQuery, though, when it comes to class creation.