Prototype and Scriptaculous Quickly

As 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.