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Create dynamic and interactive cross-browser web applications with Packt?s new MooTools book
Packt is pleased to announce MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide, a new book which covers the fundamental aspects as well as the core functions of MooTools. Authored by Jacob Gube and Garrick Cheung, the book is ideal for developers with basic JavaScript skills who want to elevate their web applications to a superior level using MooTools.
MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide is the first book specifically designed for absolute newcomers to MooTools. Packed with numerous examples, its simple-to-follow beginner’s guide style provides readers with all the building blocks required to learn the basics of MooTools and more.
The initial chapters would help readers understand the fundamentals of MooTools including downloading, installation, and basic syntax. Once they grasp the basics, the book introduces readers to exciting features like building super-charged web forms, writing powerful and flexible cross-browser code, making web applications user-interactive with AJAX and bringing web pages to life with animation. It also shows how to customize MooTools to suit your own needs by creating your own plug-ins.
MooTools is a compact JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. Its compact, modular, object-oriented nature allows developers to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant and well documented. Along with providing a detailed coherent API to increase the speed of development, it includes built-in functions for manipulation of CSS, DOM elements, native JavaScript objects, Ajax requests, and more.
The book will allow developers to grips of the basics of MooTools so that they are well on the way to creating exciting, customizable web pages and applications. The book is a resourceful read for developers who have basic knowledge of JavaScript concepts and who wish to get started with MooTools.
For more information, please visit:- http://www.packtpub.com/mootools-1-2-beginners-guide/book
Pro JavaScript – Libraries
Pro – JavaScript Libraries
JavaScript a resurgence in popularity in the last five years saw. What is once written off almost in the early 2000s now have a hot skill for any web developer. The landscape has changed a lot in these years, and JavaScript developers have a number of options available to make development much easier.
Popular Libraries
Let’s face it – in writing stinks a series of code by hand. It is time consuming, error prone and often insert trying to figure out basic problems and to ensure that the same work in all current browsers. A number of libraries and frameworks have emerged in recent years to ease the pain, and let you focus more on your business logic instead of the plumbing system.
jQuery
jQuery is one of the most popular because it should be easy to integrate and simple to the existing projects. Often with only a few lines of code, you can achieve some pretty impressive animation and fading effects – perfect for adding that “web-second 0″ touch to your website.
YUI
This toolkit from Yahoo! is another popular choice for developers, not least because the weight of Yahoo! behind it. This is the code they use on their own sites, and it has been tested, tested and tested some more to ensure a good experience on all major browsers. Their documentation is solid, and the community is strong, though not as large as jQuery. The biggest drawback to the YUI can be its detail – it often takes three or four lines of code to achieve what jQuery can do in 1 or 2.
Dojo
Dojo is another added with the support of companies – IBM developers are working and contributing to Dojo, and they use some of their own dojo in web products. How YUI, it is a sacrifice of detail, as well as YUI, Dojo goals are greater than those of jQuery. Dojo is one of the few major toolkits to support internationalization offer for example. If you have a large web project, you owe it to yourself to check Dojo, but prepare for a steep learning curve.
MooTools, Prototype, ExtJS, MochiKit, CCC and others are also candidates to consider, although all tend to smaller communities than the first three listed above. As a new candidate to fill several voids in the library room, this is undoubtedly a busy market. For more information by visiting the various conditions by visiting websites or http://jsmag. com .
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