Chapter 6. Scriptaculous Controls
This chapter covers
- Using the Scriptaculous in-place editor controls
- Using the Scriptaculous autocompleter controls
- Using the Scriptaculous slider control
In the previous chapter, we saw how Scriptaculous effects could be used to help reinforce the semantics of user interface interaction, or just to add some dazzle. Scriptaculous also provides extended controls beyond the set that is usually available to web developers. In this and the following chapter, we’ll take a look at some of the controls Scriptaculous provides that extend the traditional HTML control set.
Web applications—applications that exist not on the local system but at a remote location and that are accessed through a web browser—have made hefty inroads into spaces where their “desktop” counterparts once ruled supreme. There are many advantages, both to the application service provider and to the client, to delivering applications and services in this manner. But web applications have always suffered from restrictions placed upon them by the limitations of the browsers used to present them. In particular, the set of user interface controls made available to web application authors by the browsers, and as defined by the HTML standards, is very limited compared to the controls generally available to programmers of traditional desktop applications.