If you're a web developer with previous JavaScript and DOM scripting experience, this book is perfect for you to take your knowledge up to the next level. This book is not about learning how to program JavaScript from scratch. It starts with the assumption that you have done some JavaScript development before and understand the JavaScript syntax. This book builds on top of that knowledge to give you a deeper understanding of DOM Scripting and how to apply that to your projects. It uses this new understanding to describe what JavaScript libraries are and show you how they can be applied to your project. The book will also explain AJAX and how best to plan and apply it to your projects. It explains how to build simple animation objects for adding movement to elements on the page. This book will explain techniques new and old — such as closures, encapsulation, and inheritance — that many are using and how you can best apply them to your own projects.

Expert Web developer James E. Harmon begins by demonstrating how to “AJAX-ify” existing applications and pages with Dojo, adding AJAX features such as client- and server-side validation as quickly and nondisruptively as possible. Next, he presents in-depth coverage of Dojo’s user interface, form, layout, and specialized Widgets, showing how they work and how to use them most effectively. Among the Widgets, he covers in detail: Date Pickers, Rich Text Editors, Combo Boxes, Expandable Outlines, and many others. In conclusion, Harmon introduces the Dojo toolkit’s powerful capabilities for simplifying AJAX development.

The Dojo toolkit provides an end-to-end solution for development in the browser — everything from its standard JavaScript library and turnkey widgets to build tools and a testing framework. This comprehensive guide to Dojo includes a hard-hitting reference to help you build rich and responsive web applications with complex layouts and form controls closely resembling those found in the most advanced desktop applications. If you're a DHTML-toting web developer, you need to read this book!

This book introduces the popular open-source YUI (Yahoo! User Interface) JavaScript library and takes the user through each of the fully released components in detail looking at the classes that make up each component and the properties and methods that can be used. It includes a series of practical examples to reinforce how each component should/can be used. Author Dan Wellman takes the reader from beginner to advanced-level YUI usage and understanding.

To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency.

Revised and updated for version 1.3 of jQuery, this book teaches you the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.

Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries, that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is to write one or two lines of script that look so good they could almost pass for Ruby code!

This book is a comprehensive, practical guide for two libraries — Prototype and Scriptaculous (also written as script.aculo.us). These are libraries of reusable JavaScript code that simplify AJAX development. Prototype provides helpful methods and objects that extend JavaScript in a safe, consistent way. Its clever AJAX request model simplifies cross-browser development. Scriptaculous, which is based on Prototype, offers handy pre-fabricated widgets for rich UI development.

The era of professional JavaScript development has arrived! Gone are the days when writing all the client–side code for your applications by hand yourself was the norm. Dojo is a library like few others: written by some of the best JavaScript coders around today, providing nearly everything you’ll need to write modern Rich Internet Applications, all in one place. From AJAX to widgets, to client–side persistence and language extensions, and many points in between, Dojo has it all.

This book is ideal for web developers already experienced in JavaScript who want to take their knowledge to the next level. covers JavaScript best practices, AJAX techniques, and some of the most popular JavaScript libraries, such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and the Yahoo! YUI. It presents ten complete example projects for you to learn from and adapt for use in your own work: a utility library, a validation framework, a GUI widget framework, a dynamic event calendar application, a drag-and-drop shopping cart, and more!

Build highly interactive web applications with ready-to-use widgets of the jQuery user interface library!
— Organize your interfaces with reusable widgets like accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, tabs, and more.
— Enhance the interactivity of your pages by making elements drag and droppable, sortable, selectable, and resizable.
— Packed with examples and clear explanations to easily design elegant and powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications.
— Written and tested on jQuery UI 1.6 Release Candidate 2.
— No experience of jQuery UI expected, but familiarity with jQuery is required.