What's New in Prototype 1.5? (O'Reilly)
The latest release of Ruby on Rails, version 1.2, was announced last week to great fanfare. But the announcement might have overshadowed news of a simultaneous release: version 1.5 of Prototype, the popular JavaScript library. Despite the synchronization and developer overlap between the two projects, nothing about Prototype depends on Railsit's perfectly suitable for use with any server-side technology. In fact, Prototype has amassed a huge user base beyond the Rails communityfrom dozens of Web 2.0 startups to household names like Apple, NBC, and Gucci."