Ruby on Rails® for Microsoft Developers

A.1. HTML and JavaScript

This book assumes that you are somewhat familiar with HTML and JavaScript. To follow along, you can probably get away with not knowing the latter, but a basic understanding of HTML is a must, and acquiring some knowledge of JavaScript is very beneficial as well.

A.1.1. HTML Links

• W3Schools' HTML Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html/DEFAULT.asp

• HTML Primer: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/

• HTML Code Tutorial: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com

• HTML on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

• XHTML on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML

• HTML 4.01 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/

• XHTML 1.0 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/

• W3C's Markup Validator: http://validator.w3.org

• W3Schools' CSS Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/css/

A.1.2. JavaScript Links

• Mozilla's JavaScript guides: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript

• W3Schools' JavaScript Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/JS/default.asp

• JavaScript on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

• The JavaScript Programming Language (four parts): http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507

• JavaScript — The Good Parts: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/630959/2974197

• The Theory of DOM (three parts): http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111582/992708

• Welcome to Firebug 1.0: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111597/1755924

A.1.3. Common Ajax Libraries and Frameworks

• Prototype: http://www.prototypejs.org

• script.aculo.us: http://script.aculo.us

• jQuery: http://jquery.com

• dojo: http://dojotoolkit.org ...