Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action

by Dave Crane (Author), Bear Bibeault (Author), TomLocke (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $12.71

  As experience with Ajax increases, developers want the standard Ajax capabilities

  they repeatedly use to be preprogrammed for them and that's exactly what

  Ajax libraries do for them. They reduce the pain of handling cross-browser

  inconsistencies, they add useful language features, and provide sophisticated

  functionality. Of these, Prototype is the most popular JavaScript and Ajax framework

  for low-level coding. Scriptaculous builds on Prototype to provide popular

  high-level user interface features such as animation, drag and drop, and prebuilt

  widgets. Together, they free the developer up to concentrate on building

  the application. They make a rich user experience easy to achieve.

  This book guides the reader through the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries

  feature-by-feature. In just 350 pages, it shows over 100 small working examples

  that help readers explore the libraries, and they develop a web-based image

  gallery that teaches them how to use Prototype and Scriptaculous in the

  real-world.