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Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This! (Stock Expected September 5th) View Larger Image | Christophe Porteneuve
Pragmatic Bookshelf, Paperback, Published December 2007, 436 pages, ISBN 1934356018 | List Price: $34.95
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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.
About the Author
Christophe Porteneuve has been doing IT R&D for over 10 years, specializing
early in Web development. Involved in Ruby and Rails since 2005, and in Prototype
and script.aculo.us since 2006, Christophe contributes heavily to them all,
is one of the driving forces behind Prototype's official website (http://prototypejs.org),
a prominent voice on the support mailing list, and a member of Prototype Core.
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