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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by jsdalton on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @04:05PM (#339295)
Can't wait for someone to port this to jQuery! :)
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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by jrnkntl on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @05:20PM (#339391)
I don't understand why they (Josh Peek) didn't base it on jQuery in the first place. Prototype is like 128K vs 15K of jQuery.
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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by irrelative on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:00PM (#339670)
jQuery is 15k when zipped. The minified version before gzip is closer to 55 k.

Prototype, when zipped, is 22 k -- just checked on a server I'm running.

They're closer than you think :)

*edit - that's for version 1.51... 1.6 when minified and gzipped by web server is 23 kb. Not a huge difference, but you get the point.

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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by jonknee on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @05:48PM (#339415)
The Rails crew has a chubby for Prototype.
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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by boucher on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:13PM (#339442)
Because the creator of Prototype works at 37 Signals.
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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by snorkel on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:28PM (#339456)
Maybe and maybe not. Prototype has some features built-in that jQuery implements as plugins. Personally I prefer jQuery + plugins.
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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by Xichekolas on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @08:38PM (#339580)
Like: http://projects.bundleweb.com.ar/jWYSIWYG/ ?

Also, a WYM editor based on jQuery: http://www.wymeditor.org/

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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by bootload on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:25PM (#339450)
"... WysiHat is around 1000 lines while TinyMCE is around 11000 (yikes) ..."

As @JoshPeek noted in the comments given the LOC is 1K making it easier to create a JQuery port.

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