Chapter 1. Introducing Prototype and Scriptaculous

Ajax is growing up fast. One of the signs of that growth is the appearance, and widespread adoption, of a number of third-party libraries that make it easier to work with Ajax, and the web technologies that support it, such as DOM, CSS, and, above all, JavaScript. This book covers two related JavaScript libraries in depth: Prototype and Scriptaculous. Prototype provides many small-scale features that make it easier to work with Ajax applications. Scriptaculous leverages these features to build a number of higher-level user interface components. Together, they can give your Ajax development the edge, making it easy to express your ideas in JavaScript, and ridiculously easy to make your user interface sing.

1.1. A brief history of Ajax

1.2. What is Prototype?

1.3. What is Scriptaculous?

1.4. Applying Prototype and Scriptaculous

1.5. Summary