Base2: Dean Edwards announces beta

There has been some movement on the base2 project by Dean Edwards. He recently announced the beta testing stage for base2 after being in development for sometime.

There are some great features in base2 and you should check it out. Dean has posted 3 articles on his blog with code samples for the base2 beta.

base2/base2.DOM in Beta
base2.DOM is now ready for a beta release. As previously discussed, I’ve renamed the Selectors API methods to keep in line with the standard.

base2: An Introduction
I’ve been working on base2 for a couple of years now and it is finally ready for a beta release. With base2 I aim to solve various problems with inconsistent JavaScript implementations and add a little sugar to the language at the same time.

Organise Your Code with base2.Package
A base2.Package provides a mechanism for bundling classes, constants and functions within a closure. You can define what symbols you want to export from the Package and you can define the symbols you want to import into the closure.