Prototype and Scriptaculous Quickly

As experience with Ajax increases, developers want the standard Ajax capabilitiesthey repeatedly use to be preprogrammed for them-and that's exactly whatAjax libraries do for them. They reduce the pain of handling cross-browserinconsistencies, they add useful language features, and provide sophisticatedfunctionality. Of these, Prototype is the most popular JavaScript and Ajax frameworkfor low-level coding. Scriptaculous builds on Prototype to provide popularhigh-level user interface features such as animation, drag and drop, and prebuiltwidgets. Together, they free the developer up to concentrate on buildingthe application. They make a rich user experience easy to achieve.This book guides the reader through the Prototype and Scriptaculous librariesfeature-by-feature. In just 350 pages, it shows over 100 small working examplesthat help readers explore the libraries, and they develop a web-based imagegallery that teaches them how to use Prototype and Scriptaculous in thereal-world.