
Learn how to create dynamic, interactive, and responsive cross-browser web applications using this popular JavaScript framework
Jacob Gube, Garrick Cheung
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Overview of MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide
- Learn how to build super-charged web forms
- Learn how to write powerful and flexible cross-browser code
- Make your web applications more dynamic and user-interactive with AJAX
- Packed with examples that will show you step by step the most important aspects of getting started with MooTools
[ Detailed Information ]
Language : EnglishPaperback : 280 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : December 2009
ISBN : 1847194583
ISBN 13 : 978-1-847194-58-9
Author(s) : Jacob Gube, Garrick Cheung
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Java, Open Source
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MooTools is a simple-to-use JavaScript library, ideal for people with basic JavaScript skills who want to elevate their web applications to a superior level. If you're a newcomer to MooTools looking to build dynamic, rich, and user-interactive web site applications this beginner's guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools.
Get to grips with MooTools so that you can start to create web pages and web applications worthy of the Web 2.0 world
What you will learn from this book :
- Bringing web pages to life using animation
- Boosting the responsiveness of your web applications using AJAX with MooTools
- Building a web form dynamically responsive to a multitude of browser events
- The basics core functions of MooTools and how they work
- Creating your own versatile plug-ins that can be customized to fit your own personal requirements
- How to rapidly build a quick and easy web application using the power of MooTools
Approach
This is a Packt Beginner's Guide, which means it is packed with clear step-by-step instructions for performing the most useful tasks in MooTools. You will learn by doing and you will start learning immediately. As each chapter in the book progresses, the topics will get increasingly more complex. It starts by explaining the fundamentals of MooTools before undertaking tasks and challenges that encourage experimentation.
Who this book is written for
This book is perfect for MooTools newcomers. You do not require any familiarity with MooTools whatsoever, only a willingness to learn. Basic knowledge of JavaScript syntax and concepts is the only requirement. This book will allow you to grasp the basics of MooTools so that you will be well on the way to creating exciting, customizable web pages and applications.