Prototype Version 1.5.0 was released and accordingly, I have released a new compressed version available for download.
They also have a great set of documentation now - something that's been sorely needed. It appears that the developers have been holding back because the documentation is great especially for an initial release.
You can download the compressed version at this link: Prototype 1.5.0 Compressed.
The compressed version is 30K, with gzip compression, I see that the file goes down to 14K. Without compression, prototype is about 70K, so you'll see a pretty big difference in download speeds (should be more than twice as fast).
It appears that in bug fixing, they've changed something with Ajax.request. I'm having a bit of a problem with some existing code right now, but I don't think it'll take too long to figure out. I believe that it's now trying to automatically parse some of my json-ish responses, but they are incomplete and I want to treat them as strings (at least that was the intention when I built the code).
The compression I used for this is a combination of jscompact and jsPacker. I have a wiki page that has links to download scriptaculous compressed as well. I hope to add other libraries in the near future once I get around to automating the process.
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