Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!
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Description
Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty
of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with
Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries,
that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion,
advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is write
one or two lines of script that look so good they could almost pass for Ruby
code!
Web applications are getting richer and richer, with more interaction baked
in every day. But JavaScript, DOM, CSS and a full host of other Web standards
are quite complex, and the result isn't always browser compliant.
The Prototype and script.aculo.us libraries are veritable treasure troves,
smoothing over all the usual nitty-gritty differences between browsers, and
making most common features a breeze to implement. With this book, you can
quickly wield the whole power of these extraordinary libraries.
Dive into Prototype, the library that makes JavaScript so much more
powerful, and it looks a lot like Ruby code. Exploring the DOM, handling
events, taming AJAX, and radically simplifying most of your scripting code: it
all becomes easy-and very portable-with Prototype.
When it comes to advanced UI features, script.aculo.us is every web
developer's dream come true: whether you need to create auto-completed text
inputs, implement in-place editors, provide customized drag-and-drop
behaviors, capture your users' attention with visual effects or simply build
DOM fragments more efficiently, it's all there, and lightweight too.
This book guides you through all the details of these features, letting you
use many technologies on the server side, such as PHP, vanilla Ruby, and Ruby
On Rails, in countless examples illustrating every aspect. Power users will
also learn the design philosophies of the libraries, and how to contribute to
them and augment them for their own needs.
