[BNM] Scriptaculous... Intro...

[paul perrin]

Thanks Jay the prototype stuff does the job.

However I still say that the script.aculo.us site is a turkey for
documentation - they should take a look at the way the prototype bods have
done it.

Cheers

Paul /)+)

2008/9/3 Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org>

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> > 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...
>
> The document wiki linked from the homepage:
>
> http://media.charanga.com/backsticking/MojaveExternalAll.swf
>
> But the trouble is, scriptaculous is really an FX library built *on
> top of Prototype*. If you want to do things like replace an image on
> an onchange event, you really want to use prototype. Scriptaculous is
> for making divs wobble and fade, etc (I'm being slightly spurious here
> ;) http://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/wikis/effect-pulsate vs
> http://prototypejs.org/api/event/observe
>
> http://prototypejs.org/api
>
>
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