Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action

Part 2. Scriptaculous Quickly

This part of the book provides an in-depth look at Scriptaculous. Although Scriptaculous is built on top of Prototype, we’ve chosen to present Scriptaculous first because it presents a number of quick wins for the web app developer, and it can be used without a detailed knowledge of Prototype. To a newcomer to these libraries, we believe that this is the most likely entry point for learning these libraries. Scriptaculous provides plenty of instant gratification, whereas Prototype’s power is more low-key, and better learned slowly. This is not to say that Scriptaculous doesn’t contain complex code too, and, for each of the topics covered in this part of the book, we will walk you through from the one-line first encounter ...