Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action |
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Dave Crane, Bear Bibeault, Tom Locke
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Pages: 544 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1933988037
Pub: Manning Publications
Pub date: 2007-03-21
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64645
Reader Reviews:
good overview with good helpfull javascript information. (6/6 people found this helpful)
It's a truism that Javascript is the language that everyone uses but nobody knows. But increasingly programmers are turning to this fascinating language to solve more and more real world integration and webapp usability problems. Protoype and Script.aculo.us are in this space.
This book dives straight in with a tutorial of why AJAX driven programming makes such sense and explains a lot of the underlying concepts. It shows several different ways of achieving the same end and explains the pros and cons of each one. It's a good solid intro.
The book then moves on to introduce script.aculo.us. This is a toolkit that aims to make whizzy user interfaces a lot simpler. Drag and drop and the other complex parts of script.aculo.us are explained clearly and with plenty of examples.
The final third of the book is more in depth Prototype information. There is fantastically useful stuff about Javascript itself as well as Prototype; for example the section of function contexts and closures is one of the best I have read on the subject.
If you're a programmer and interested in making Javascript do a few more things for you than the odd bit of form validation then this book is a really good start.
One last thing: there are lots of Javascript toolkits out there but Prototype is one of the most popular (it is developed along with rails) and many of the concepts of Prototype are shared with other toolkits (mootools by media temple for example).
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