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Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action (Paperback)

by Dave Crane (Author), Bear Bibeault (Author), Tom Locke (Author)

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Paperback: 511 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications (21 Mar 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1933988037
ISBN-13: 978-1933988030
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm

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Prototype and Scriptaculous are libraries that extend standard Ajax. They make it easier to program Ajax and provide powerful features like drag and drop and animation. In this book, developers learn by playing and see how the libraries work in the real world.

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 user interface features such as animation, drag and drop, and pre-built 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, readers will find over 100 small working examples to help them explore the libraries. As well, they will develop a web-based image gallery that teacher them how to use Prototype and Scriptaculous in the real-world.

About the Author

Dave Crane is an Ajax authority and lead author of the best-selling Ajax in Action. He is currently senior developer for UK-based Historic Futures Ltd., developing the next generation of socially responsible supply-chain systems using Ajax to link rural cooperatives and multinational corporations.

Michael "Bear" Bibeault is a US-based Java programmer with over 20 years experience in enterprise and Web applications. He's a popular moderator on The Java Ranch and coauthor of the upcoming Ajax in Practice.

Tom Locke is a UK-based independent web developer and trainer specializing in Ruby on Rails. He is the creator of Logix, a multi-language programming system, and the CTO of LiveLogix.

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4.0 out of 5 stars good overview with good helpfull javascript information., 30 April 2007

By	N. J. Ferrier - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book and decent example., 18 Dec 2008

By	Mr. Jeremy Flowers "Working on Grails portal" (Milton Keynes, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I would say 90% of this book is very clear and easy to read.
There are a few places where I found the book lacking. Predominantly this revolved around chapter 8 where the images from the Scratchpad had no correlation with the text. It's as if things got terribly mixed up and nobody spotted this in the proof reading.
I also found the material a bit hard to understand in a couple of places. Eg Position object. Section 11.2.4.
But on the whole the book does convey information very well.
The book uses a blend of PHP, servlets and Ruby on Rails for server-side code. Personally I marginally would have preferred if they had stuck to Servlets and Tomcat, but enjoyed adding PHP and Ruby on Rails to my tool belt.
The Prototype library enhances Javascript by providing a lot of low level enhancement to Javascript and sort out event handling and cross browser issues. It provides extensive extensions to array processing and DOM node manipulation. (In my opinion jQuery is better for the latter and Dojo provides a similar event processing enhancements).
Scriptaculous builds upon Prototype and provides extensive "special effects" and drag and drop type functionality. Controls are developed like Sliders, Autocompleters, InPlaceEditors You can do things like accordion style effects, make items on the page shake and do all sorts of animations.
The download gives good lab examples to help you get to grips with the effects.
The book initially shows how to develop a regular web app without Ajax, that is a remote file manager like Windows Explorer.
The book continues to discuss the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries providing an excellent Ajax tutorial along the way with good coverage of things like closures.
The book later returns to the web app and Ajaxifies it consolidating the information taught earlier, transforming the application into a Slideshow application whereby you can tag photos with descriptions and drag & drop them into slideshows. It mimics a trash can so you can remove pictures from the slideshow by dragging them onto it along with save/restore capabilities to a PHP server.
The book ends up discussing how Ruby on Rails makes coding easier. It sits on top of Prototype and Scriptaculous and via helpers embedded into server-side Scriplets generates you Javascript for you from more concise code.

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