Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us

by Andrew Dupont

In this book, Prototype Core development team member Andrew Dupont provides you with an essential guide to getting the most out of using Prototype and script.aculo.us. He will help you leverage these popular and well-supported JavaScript libraries to enhance your day-to-day work, speeding up mundane tasks and providing advanced UI effects in a way that is cross-browser compliant. The book examines the different time-saving functions and features Prototype provides and covers how it extends the basic JavaScript objects, including events, Ajax techniques, DOM elements, enumerables, and advanced OOP.

352 pages, Paperback

First published June 23, 2007

Reviews

[Matt McClard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alright, first technical book review of the year. Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us by Andrew Dupont was a winner. I thought the book was well written with good "real-world" examples that will not only help you learn the Prototype framework, but also get you to start thinking about how you could use it on your sites.

My only complaint of the book was the a couple of examples that were messed up, which I had to gnash my teeth over to get working. All in all I'd say the examples worked correctly, I just think some could have been explained a little better.

I enjoyed Mr. Dupont's sense of humor and warm tone though-out the book including his Arrested Development nod towards the end.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has learned some javascript and hates it, but still wants to build in some of the awesome things it can do into web sites.