Comments on: How to Create Objects in Object-Oriented JavaScript with Prototype

By: John Eway

John Eway — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:30:00 +0000

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By: K. Adam Christensen

K. Adam Christensen — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:52:52 +0000

It works for me. Are you including the “prototype framework”:http://www.prototypejs.org/ with this code?

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:46:44 +0000

It doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried it in IE6, Opera9 – no errors, just nothing happens.

By: Andrew Sazonov

Andrew Sazonov — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:37:02 +0000

Here is a link to an article which compares various techniques to implement inheritance in JavaScript (and their benefits and drawbacks) and also includes points why prototype.js is not perfect:

http://www.soft-amis.org/jsiner/inheritance.html

By: Dan of javascript kata

Dan of javascript kata — Tue, 01 May 2007 08:01:23 +0000

Hi Adam,
I didn’t know that prototype had a helper for class creation. I guess you can also make some inheritance…

Maybe you are wondering why I use a Cat as example. First, I really like cats. Second, it is not a reusable class that you can copy/paste in your project. That way, the reader that wants to do a class has to understand the technic and he is not just using the class blindly.

Thanks for you post!