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script.aculo.us

I'm going to have to do a HUGE HTML project which cannot use Flash but needs to have invisible/visible text, fading, etc.

I have *no* idea how to do ANY of this but, stumbling around, I came upon this library which looks useful.

Anyone ever used it or similar? Any recommendations or caveats?

i've never actually used scriptaculous before

i HAVE used mootools and thats pretty easy, you should be able to find what you're looking for there. it may take a bit of troubleshooting, but its really not that hard, just read the docs

mootools, scriptaculous, jquery all do about the same thing. They all have about the same functionality produced in similar ways. Choose the one that has modules that are useful for you. The most important thing is that you don't mix them. They really don't play well together, especially scriptaculous and jquery.

for most of them, it's adding specific .js files and then using minimal css that is mostly provided in the modules to achieve the effects you want.

Thanks, guys. Riddla, that's how it looked to me, too, altho I have *no* idea what I'm doing.

*fears*

I was looking for ways to fade text via CSS when I hit on some tutorials using scriptaculous.

Mark

As you know flash then I would try HAXE


- it does flash or javascript, it was created by the guy who created the MASTC flash AS2 compiler.
haxe.org/

JavaScript : you can generate a single .js file from a set of haXe classes. You can access browser DHTML API as well as crossbrowser APIs such as Xml, Date or XmlHttpRequest... haXe is one of the best available languages to develop middle and large scale AJAX Web Applications.

The haXe Syntax is similar to the one used in Java/JavaScript/ActionScript, so it’s very easy to learn and get used to haXe. haXe can also integrate easily in your favorite editor or IDE.

I would recommend mooTools, I've used it on plenty of commercial projects before, and it's really light weight, the documentation is solid, and the forums, and examples are usually pretty good too.

I have used YUI-EXT which is an extension of the Yahoo! UI toolset. Its well documented and supported.

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