[BNM] Scriptaculous... Intro...

[Anthony Johnston]

script.aculo.us is built on prototypejs, so you may find the docs at
http://www.prototypejs.org/api helpful, Ant

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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of paul perrin
Sent: 03 September 2008 11:53
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Scriptaculous... Intro...

Thanks for all the suggestions....

However, I was only looking at using *script.aculo.us* 'cos it is already
used on the site elsewhere. So alternatives (JQuery, Prototypes) etc aren't
really in the frame.

The script.aculo.us site is a complete turkey as far as documentation goes
(I did mention that I had already googled to find docs - so I had already
been there)...  So it looks like hand coding it will be quicker than
tracking down any docs...

Cheers

Paul /)/+)

ps. For AJAX (rather than just graphic effects) I would (of couse) use the
.NET Ajax library :-)
2008/9/3 Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com>

>
> > 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.
>
>
>
>
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