Newton Aaron. MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScript and Ajax Development

Apress, 2008. — 300 p. — ISBN-10: 1430209836.
На англ. языке.Whether you are visiting or building a web site these days, you can’t deny that JavaScript has
become an important part of the experience. Visitors to web sites expect them to be interactive
and responsive, and that means that those of us who build them must spend the time to make
that experience come alive.
In the past, JavaScript was often a tedious business, with browsers each offering their own
mercurial blend of standard and nonstandard functionality. Modern JavaScript has taken off
with the advent of JavaScript frameworks: libraries that enhance the JavaScript language itself
and help you avoid all the pesky browser bugs.
MooTools is a JavaScript framework that enables you to write clean, concise, reusable code to
animate and dynamically change the content on your site using Ajax and other technologies,
taking care of all the grunt work for you. This book aims to make the process of getting started
with MooTools an easy one, covering everything from downloading the code and adding it to
your pages to explaining what each class and method does (and, perhaps more importantly,
when you’ll use each one).
I’ve combined real-world examples with nuanced explanations of everything you need to know
to make your site fun and engaging. You’ll be adding effects and Ajax in no time.