Book Description As the industry-standard, must-know scripting language, JavaScript is supported by all major browsers and is increasingly the foundation of new web development technologies such as Ajax and JSON. This book offers a selection of some of the most active and most used JavaScript frameworks available, replete with practical examples and explanations of what each framework does best

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Professional JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype, YUI, ExtJS, Dojo and MooTools