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24th October 2007 - Link Blog

Upgrading to Prototype 1.6: real world examples. I still don’t find Prototype as intuitive as jQuery, but the API improvements between 1.5 and 1.6 are very impressive.

Posted 24th October 2007 at 7:19 pm

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