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Pragmatic Guide to JavaScript

by Christophe Porteneuve

333 pages - 2010 - 4.6 MB New!

JavaScript is everywhere. It’s a key component of today’s Web a powerful, dynamic language with a rich ecosystem of professional-grade development tools, infrastructures, frameworks, and toolkits. This book will get you up to speed quickly and painlessly with the 35 key JavaScript tasks you need to know.

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Prototype and script.aculo.us

by Christophe Porteneuve

333 pages - 2007 - 4.5 MB New!

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 to write one or two lines of script that look so good they could almost pass for Ruby code!