Browser Tech., JSP library called Prototype.

As an engineer that works for a mobile devices company, sometimes, I feel it is easy to miss some of the web inventions and technology actions. Fortunately for me, I have a sports website where I can tinker with some of the emerging technologies and new ideas on how to put them to good use.

Recently, I saw a demo. of a client-side technology called "prototype". See for yourself on how you can have a window transition from lying dormant in your web page into an user interactable object on the browsing page.


The library claims to take care of cross-compatibility issues across the two browser goliaths, IE and Netscape. However, an interesting test on my Palm PDA that runs the browser Opera-mini couldn't work the magic. All this bodes well for the web based User Interfaces that are likely to become richer and richer. Hopefully we will see some useful widgets coming out soon.