MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScriptTM and Ajax Development

Mootools is a light, modular JavaScript framework that makes adding Ajax, animations, and interactive elements to your site a breeze. But it’s more than fancy effects and shortcuts; Mootools enhances the JavaScript language and makes writing clean, object–oriented code almost pleasant. Unlocking the power of Mootools, and therefore JavaScript, isn’t that hard, but knowing where to start can be. Mootools Essentials aims to help you accomplish that task with the following: Illustrations of nearly every class and function in the library Real–world examples of how to use them Written by Mootools user/contributor and Mootorial author, Aaron Newton . You can see how Mootools makes JavaScript more powerful. What you’ll learn Access the complete reference to the Mootools library. See how to use the library and understand how JavaScript/Mootools is different from other programming languages. Get step–by–step code authoring examples. Explore real–world examples of how to accomplish common fundamental tasks. Who is this book for? This firstPress book is for web developers who want to learn an easier and productive way to develop/use JavaScript and Ajax. Mootools is a light, modular JavaScript framework that makes adding Ajax, animations, and interactive elements to your site a breeze. But it’s more than fancy effects and shortcuts; Mootools enhances the JavaScript language and makes writing clean, object–oriented code almost pleasant. Unlocking the power of Mootools, and therefore JavaScript, isn’t that hard, but knowing where to start can be. __Mootools Essentials__ aims to help you accomplish that task with the following: * Illustrations of nearly every class and function in the library * Real–world examples of how to use them * Written by Mootools user/contributor and Mootorial author, **Aaron Newton**. You can see how Mootools makes JavaScript more powerful. ## What you’ll learn * Access the complete reference to the Mootools library. * See how to use the library and understand how JavaScript/Mootools is different from other programming languages. * Get step–by–step code authoring examples. * Explore real–world examples of how to accomplish common fundamental tasks. ## Who is this book for? This firstPress book is for web developers who want to learn an easier and productive way to develop/use JavaScript and Ajax. Provides information on using the JavaScript framework MooTools to write reusable code for Web sites using Ajax and other technologies