[OpenLayers-Dev] $()

[Jeff Dege]

> From: dev-bounces at openlayers.org 
> [mailto:dev-bounces at openlayers.org] On Behalf Of Erik Uzureau
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:09 PM
> To: dev at openlayers
> Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] $()
> 
> FWIW, OpenLayers is moving *away* from defining the $() operator as
> defined in Prototype. We no longer include the Prototype library in
> our build. Instead, we have cherry-picked some of the convenient
> functions that we like from the library.
> 
> For the moment, the $() *is* still maintained in the OL release,
> though you will notice that it is marked as deprecated and is not
> actually used anywhere in the trunk. We would like to pull it
> altogether, but unfortunately some OL users might depend on it and
> we're trying not to break API until we do the 3.0 release.

We're all of us learning as we go along.