Second beta (B1) released!
The book’s second beta, B1, was released today. It now features the script.aculo.us part, for a total of about 390 pages!
The book has entered tech review and its next release should be the final one, complete with the latest Prototype 1.6 updates, the intro and preface, and having gone through the usual late stages (copy editing, indexing, etc.).
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I have really enjoyed going through your book, even though I am not good at js.
All the examples worked without problem bar one, that was the ajax fireworks example that just didn’t work and also didn’t generate any errors - oh well
One question I have is would it be useful to demonstrate something like rjs templates and/or possibly a peak at some advanced rails techniques?
Peter
Hey Peter,
Thanks for the kind words! Much appreciated.
I’m currently revamping the book’s codebase and will systematically test again every code sample on all big browsers to make sure they work fine, so if there’s indeed something wrong with Fireworks I should catch it.
As for RJS, I’m trying very hard to dissociate the book from Rails, because I want to stress how Proto and Scripty are not bound to it. I hope books such as the various Rails Recipes editions cover this, and I believe Tobie Langel has a cookbook in the works for PragProg that should address this in all its detailed glory (although when that book is due I could not say).
However, this blog might end up having articles on various integrations of Proto/Scripty with several backends, including Rails and its nifty RJS templates.
‘hope that helps,