The Definitive Guide to Mootools

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. The Definitive Guide to MooTools 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 will see how MooTools makes JavaScript more powerful with this complete and definitive reference to the MooTools library.

What you'll learn 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. Extend and use the newly available extensive MooTools Plug-ins library. Create your own plug-ins and JavaScript/Ajax Widgets with MooTools.

Who is this book for? This book is for web developers who want to learn an easier and productive way to develop/use JavaScript and Ajax.