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Hello Christophe,

I downloaded the table of contents from the pragmatic bookshelf's website, but it says that it's in beta, and the table of contents has the contents of the prototype part only. I just wanted to know what are the topics covered on script.aculo.us. Thanks
 
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Hey Alaa,

I downloaded the table of contents from the pragmatic bookshelf's website, but it says that it's in beta, and the table of contents has the contents of the prototype part only. I just wanted to know what are the topics covered on script.aculo.us.



Holy cow! (this is JavaRanch, after all)

Thanks for noticing this. It is way odd that nobody complained earlier; this TOC dates back to May 2007. I notified Prag and they should regenerate the PDFs within hours. In the meantime, allow me to outline the TOC here:

  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • [list] 1.1 It�s About Time
  • 1.2 What�s in This Book, and How Is It Organized?
  • 1.3 Acknowledgments
  • I Prototype
  • 2 Discovering Prototype
  • 2.1 What Is Prototype, and What Is It Not?
  • 2.2 Using Prototype in Our Project
  • 2.3 What Does Our JavaScript Look Like When Using Prototype?
  • 2.4 Prototype Jargon and Concepts
  • 2.5 What Are Prototypes Anyway?
  • 2.6 Running Prototype Code Samples in This Book
  • 3 Quick Help with the Dollars
  • 3.1 Shortcuts Should Be Short
  • 3.2 Quick Fetching of Smart Elements with $
  • 3.3 $w, Because Array Literals Are Boring
  • 3.4 $$ Searches with Style
  • 3.5 $A, the Collection Unifier
  • 3.6 $F Is a Field Expert
  • 3.7 $H Makes a Hash of Things
  • 3.8 Handling Ranges with $R
  • 4 Regular JavaScript on Steroids
  • 4.1 Generic Object Manipulation
  • 4.2 Proper Function Binding
  • 4.3 Your Functions Actually Know More Tricks
  • 4.4 Numbers
  • 4.5 Strings
  • 4.6 Arrays
  • 4.7 Full-Spectrum JSON Support
  • 5 Advanced Collections with Enumerable
  • 5.1 The Core Method: Iterating with each
  • 5.2 Getting General Infor mation About Our Collection
  • 5.3 Finding Elements and Applying Filters
  • 5.4 Grouping Elements and Pasting Collections Together
  • 5.5 Computing a Derived Collection or Value
  • 5.6 Order Now: Getting Extreme Values and Using Custom Sorts
  • 5.7 Tur ning Our Collection into an Array or Debugging String
  • 5.8 Enumerable Is Actually a Module
  • 6 Unified Event Handling
  • 6.1 Event
  • 6.2 The Events Hall of Fame
  • 6.3 Reacting to For m-Related Content Changes
  • 7 Playing with the DOM Is Finally Fun!
  • 7.1 Extending DOM Elements
  • 7.2 Element, Your New Best Friend
  • 7.3 Selector
  • 7.4 Debugging Our DOM-Related Code
  • 8 Form Management
  • 8.1 Toward a Better User Inter face
  • 8.2 Looking at For m Fields
  • 8.3 Submitting For ms Through Ajax
  • 8.4 Keeping an Eye on For ms and Fields
  • 9 Ajax Has Never Been So Easy
  • 9.1 Before We Start
  • 9.2 Hitting the Road: Ajax.Request
  • 9.3 Streamlining: Ajax.Updater
  • 9.4 Polling: Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater
  • 9.5 Monitoring Ajax Activity: Ajax.Responders
  • 9.6 Debugging Ajax
  • 9.7 Ajax Considered Harmful? Thinking About Accessibility and Ergonomy
  • 10 More Useful Helper Objects
  • 10.1 Storing Values in a Hash
  • 10.2 Expressing Ranges of... Well, Anything You Want!
  • 10.3 Periodical Execution Without Risk of Reentrance
  • 10.4 Templating Made Easy
  • 10.5 Examining the Current Browser and Prototype Library
  • 11 Performance Considerations
  • 11.1 Element Extension and the $ Function
  • 11.2 Iterations vs. Regular Loops
  • 11.3 Obsolete Event Handlers
  • 11.4 Recent Speed Boosts You Should Know About
  • 11.5 Small Is Beautiful
  • 12 Wrapping Up
  • 12.1 Building a Fancy Task List
  • 12.2 Laying the Groundwork
  • 12.3 It Takes Only 40 Lines: The JavaScript Code
  • II script.aculo.us
  • 13 Discovering script.aculo.us
  • 13.1 The Modules of script.aculo.us
  • 13.2 Using script.aculo.us in Your Pages
  • 14 Visual Effects
  • 14.1 What Are Those Effects, and Why Should We Use Them?
  • 14.2 Core Effects
  • 14.3 Diving into Effects
  • 14.4 Combined Effects
  • 14.5 Unlocking the Cool Factor: Effect Queues
  • 14.6 Effect Helpers
  • 14.7 How to Create Our Own Effects
  • 15 Drag and Drop
  • 15.1 Dragging Stuff Around
  • 15.2 Controlling How It Starts, Where It Goes, & How It Ends
  • 15.3 Ghosting
  • 15.4 Dragging and Scrolling
  • 15.5 Monitoring Drags
  • 15.6 Dropping Stuff
  • 15.7 Customizing Drop Behavior
  • 15.8 Sorting with Drag and Drop
  • 15.9 Common Pitfalls
  • 16 Autocompletion
  • 16.1 The Basics
  • 16.2 Local Autocompletion
  • 16.3 Getting Ajaxy
  • 16.4 Using Rich-Markup Choices
  • 16.5 Autocompleting Multiple Values in One Field
  • 16.6 Reacting to Completion with Callbacks
  • 17 Building DOM Fragments the Easy Way: Builder
  • 17.1 Building Explicitly
  • 17.2 Using an (X)HTML Representation
  • 18 In-Place Editing
  • 18.1 What�s In-Place Editing Exactly?
  • 18.2 A Simple Example
  • 18.3 How Can We Tweak the Ajax Persistence?
  • 18.4 Customizing the Appearance
  • 18.5 Dealing with Multiple Lines
  • 18.6 Editing Alter native Text
  • 18.7 Disabling In-Place Editing
  • 18.8 Of fering a List of Values Instead of Text Typing
  • 19 Sliders
  • 19.1 Creating a Simple Slider
  • 19.2 Customizing the Basics
  • 19.3 Restricting Range or Allowed Values
  • 19.4 Tweaking an Existing Slider and Adding Controls
  • 19.5 Defining Multiple Values
  • 20 Sound Without Flash
  • 20.1 Where Does It Work?
  • 20.2 How Do We Play Sounds?
  • 20.3 Playing Multiple Sounds on Multiple Tracks
  • A Extending and Contributing
  • A.1 Building Over: Classes, Inheritance, and DOM Extension
  • A.2 Contributing!
  • B Further Reading
  • B.1 Official Websites
  • B.2 Useful Blogs by Prototype Core Members
  • B.3 JavaScript Masters
  • B.4 Community and New Sites Around Ajax
  • B.5 ECMAScript Intimacy
  • B.6 Bibliography
  • C Installing and Using Ruby
  • C.1 On Windows
  • C.2 On Linux
  • C.3 On Mac OS X
  • C.4 Running a Ruby Script
  • C.5 �But I Don�t Know a Thing About Ruby!�
  • Index
  • [/LIST]
     
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