Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action

Chapter 12. Prototype and Scriptaculous in Practice

This chapter covers

• Using Prototype and Scriptaculous in a production setting
• Formulating a drag-and-drop strategy
• Using the Scriptaculous in-place editor
• Writing your own Effects classes

In the previous two parts of the book, we covered Scriptaculous and Prototype with a fine-toothed comb and learned a lot about the details of the libraries. We’re going to round off that knowledge in this chapter with an in-depth example of a moderately complex application.

Remember the QuickGallery application that we introduced in chapter 2, and Ajax-enabled in chapters 3 and 4? By the end of chapter 4, we had streamlined the navigation of the images on the filesystem by using Ajax, but it was still basically ...