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Prototype & script.aculo.us--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!

Sebastopol, CA-- Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of
cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with
Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries,
that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop,
auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features,
all you need is write one or two lines of script that look so good they
could almost pass for Ruby code!

In "Prototype and script.aculo.us: You never knew JavaScript could do
this!" (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $34.95), author Christophe Porteneuve opens
up these veritable treasure troves, showing you how they smooth over all
the usual nitty-gritty differences between browsers, and make most common
features a breeze to implement. With this book, you can quickly wield the
whole power of these extraordinary libraries.

Christophe tells us, "Web applications are getting richer and richer, with
more interaction baked in every day. But JavaScript, DOM, CSS and a full
host of other Web standards are quite complex, and the result isn't always
browser compliant." But now you can easily tame all that complexity.

Dive into Prototype, the library that makes JavaScript so much more
powerful, and it looks a lot like Ruby code. Exploring the DOM, handling
events, taming AJAX, and radically simplifying most of your scripting
code: it all becomes easy-and very portable-with Prototype.

When it comes to advanced UI features, script.aculo.us is every web
developer's dream come true: whether you need to create auto-completed
text inputs, implement in-place editors, provide customized drag-and-drop
behaviors, capture your users' attention with visual effects or simply
build DOM fragments more efficiently, it's all there, and lightweight,
too.

This book guides you through all the details of these features, letting
you use many technologies on the server side, such as PHP, vanilla Ruby,
and Ruby On Rails, in countless examples illustrating every aspect. Power
users will also learn the design philosophies of the libraries, and how to
contribute to them and augment them for their own needs.

Christophe Porteneuve has been doing IT R&D for over 10 years,
specializing early in Web development. Involved in Ruby and Rails since
2005, and in Prototype and script.aculo.us since 2006, Christophe
contributes heavily to them all, is one of the driving forces behind
Prototype's official website (prototypejs.org), a prominent voice on the
support mailing list, and a member of Prototype Core.

For more information about the book, see:
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Table of Contents: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/cppsu/toc.pdf
Sample Chapter: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/cppsu/chap7.pdf

Prototype & script.aculo.us
Christophe Porteneuve
ISBN: 1-934356-01-8, 436 pages, $34.95 USD, £21.99 GBP
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