[BNM] Scriptaculous... Intro...

[Nick Taylor]

> http://script.aculo.us/
> 
> But really you're probably more interested in http://prototypejs.org/
> for those simple DOM things. And really, you ought to be looking at
> http://jquery.com instead :D


I went through a scriptaculous phase... wound up with jQuery - basically 
  because jQuery is a wrapper around a fairly inane language.

so instead of doing: document.getElementByID('id')

you do $('#id')

Obviously the getElementByID example I gave won't work, because who can 
remember whether it's ID or Id? In their enthusiasm for creating 
human-readable function names, they've created human-unmemoriseable ones.

JQuery allows me to write javascript without endlessly having to copy 
and paste basic functions etc.

So that's my rant of the morning out of the way.