>One thing that I found last night was a Prototype cheat sheet developed >by Jonathan Snook. It can be found here: >http://www.snook.ca/archives/000531.php
http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html This guy read through the prototype.js source and took some notes, which he was kind enough to share with everybody. That's one of the nicest things about Prototype compared to other frameworks: it has enough functionality that you won't immediately be reaching for another tool to do something else (as opposed to really minimal "frameworks" like xhconn), but it's still reasonably short (about 50k uncompressed - prints out to 44 A4 landscape pages) so you can take it away somewhere with a cup of coffee and just read it. What it's lacking is any kind of support for prepackaged gui effects (beyond show/hide/toggle) or behaviour like drag/drop etc. If and when you need those, there are several libraries out there (most noteably scriptaculous) which build on top of prototype. >My next Ajax book will be Foundations of Ajax but I am definitely going >to get Ajax in Action based on your recommendation. I'd say skip it - it's pretty much the same basic contents as Head Rush Ajax. Tedious explanations of the xmlHttpRequest object are fast replacing those intro that used to give you a synopsis of the history of the internet in every... single... book... (yes, i do read a lot of computer books. I say either buy the thickest book with the biggest index or a small book that's interesting enough to read away from your computer - a real acid test for computer book quality) /t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:244422 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
