Prototype & Scriptaculous In Action

Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action is a comprehensive, practical guide that walks you feature-by-feature through the two libraries. First, you’ll use Scriptaculous to make easy but powerful UI improvements. Then you’ll dig into Prototype’s elegant and sparse syntax. See how a few characters of Prototype code can save a dozen lines of JavaScript. By applying these techniques, you can concentrate on the function and flow of your application instead of the coding details. This is a comprehensive, practical guide that walks you feature-by feature through the two libraries. First, you’ll use Scriptaculous to make easy but powerful UI improvements. Then you’ll dig into Prototype’s elegant and sparse syntax. By applying these techniques, you can concentrate on the function and the flow of your application instead of the coding details.

Table of contents :
Part I Getting Started
· Introducing Prototype and Scriptaculous
· Introducing QuickGallery
· Simplifying Ajax with Prototype
· Using Prototype’s Advanced Ajax Features
Part II Scriptaculous Quickly
· Scriptaculous Effects
· Scriptaculous Controls
· Scriptaculous Drag and Drop
Part III Prototype in Depth
· All About Objects
· Fun with Functions
· Arrays Made Easy
· Back to the Browser
Part IV Advanced Topics
· Prototype and Scriptaculous in Practice
· Prototype, Scriptaculous, and Rails

Market Description :
· This book is written for web developers with a working knowledge of JavaScript.

About Author :
Dave Crane is a UK-based Ajax expert an coauthor of the bestselling Ajax in Action as well as the follow-up, Ajax in Practice.

Bear Bibeault is a US-based Java Developer and co-author of Ajax in Practice.

Tom Locke, creator of Hobo for Rails, contributed the coverage of Rails in this book