Description
Book SynopsisAs 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.
