Combining advanced JavaScript/DOM techniques and Ajax to build better User
The Ajax Experience
San Francisco · May 10 - 12, 2006
About this Presentation
Ajax is giving developers and designers the power to access the back- end at any time. How and where does JavaScript and the Document Object Model fit in? How can they be used efficiently to provide next- generation form controls, sliding panels, loading-on-demand, activity indicators and
what-have-you?
Implement the next cool Ajax control using the Prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries and learn about the visual effects engine and how to best put it to use for your very own home- grown effects.
Thomas also talks about the challenges and annoyances with different browsers and most importantly, how to make it work.
Creator of Script.aculo.us
Thomas Fuchs is a software architect from Vienna, Austria. He's been building web applications since 1996. Thomas is the author of script.aculo.us, a cross-browser JavaScript framework featuring advanced Ajax UI controls, visual effects and other niceties, and a core development team member of the influential Ruby on Rails web development framework. He's also a contributor to Prototype, an object-oriented Ajax/JavaScript framework.
He wrote the “Web 2.0” chapter on Ajax development with Rails for the best-selling Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers) book.
Next to writing about web application development on his blog mir.aculo.us, he currently is busy building fluxiom, an ajaxy web application, as a member of wollzelle, a Viennese design and programming shop.