Geek by Day » ajax http://www.geekbyday.com A blog with no particularly interesting tagline Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:46:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Some AJAX Libraries http://www.geekbyday.com/2006/05/17/some-ajax-libraries/ http://www.geekbyday.com/2006/05/17/some-ajax-libraries/#comments Wed, 17 May 2006 20:05:45 +0000 Mason http://scripts.mit.edu/~masont/blog/?p=6 At work today, my boss asked me to write a tag library for Spring, and in the process, I found these two really neat Javascript libraries that reduce a lot of the tedium of writing an AJAX (Asychronous Javascript And XML) web application.

  • Prototype – A fairly large (~50kb) Javascript library that defines several classes to make your life easier. There are many functions provided that simply reduce the amount of typing you have to do, and even Ruby-style closures for lists, through the Enumeration class. Of course, it also provides some great classes for AJAX tasks as well. However, be warned, there is very little official documentation for Prototype.
  • script.aculo.us – A Javascript library that layers itself on top of Prototype and adds a plethora of eye candy. Some of the effects it includes are: drag & drop support, fading, sliding panels, and highlighting.

Working with either library is extremely pleasant, especially when compared to the task of manually coding all of the functionality that they provide for free. Also, I’ve seen the end results on many websites and they look great. Highly recommended.

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