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I just recently bought a prototype/script.aculo.us book for my wife, who's relatively new to web design (html and css).

She's currently interested in adding some interactivity to her designs and has zero knowledge of JavaScript.

Does your book assume basic JS knowledge? Would you recommend Dojo over scriptaculous for adding effects?

Thanks.
 
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Even though I wrote a book on Prototype and Scriptaculous (perhaps even the one you bought), I no longer endorse them for web development as newer libraries such as Dojo and jQuery are less intrusive and better suited for the job; in my opinion, of course.
 
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Thanks Bear! I should have dropped by here before buying.
 
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Hi Paul,
I haven't checked in onScriptaculous lately, but IIRC it does have a lot of useful effects. Dojo have a host of different fx and animations as well. What might be different in Dojo is that the animation package is generic and can be applied to almost any kind of transitions.

It's possible, for example to make a transition between two CSS classes, or to drive another kind of thing entirely ith the callbacks.

If you download the Dojo source (or check out svn anonymously - the docs is on the main site at the bottom) there are unit tests in the dojox/fx/tests folder.

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