Prototype Reference Widget

I was excited when the first documentation of the Prototype JavaScript Framework was released a couple of weeks ago. In order to get quick access to the documentation I created a simple Dashboard widget. And well… I thought it would be nice to share it with you.

On the official Prototype blog Justin Palmer posted some tools that are of great help when coding Prototype based JavaScript applications. Besides the TextMate plugins I particulary liked the idea of using a bookmarklet to quickly search the documentation. Since it’s just a simple JavaScript, I thought it would be nice to create a tiny Dashboard widget out of it.

Usage

So what about usage? Well as you might have expected, it’s quite simple: For instance if you are looking for documentation on “Event”, just type “event” - if you want some details on “Event.observe”, just enter “Event.observe”... wow ;) Actually you can also omit the separating dots and just use spaces instead. That’s it. Enjoy.

Update: Version 1.1 is out with tweaked support for Prototype’s $-utilities. For instance you can now search for “$, $$, $a etc.”. A special “thank you” goes out to Andrew Dupont, providing the respective JavaScript code.