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MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide

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MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

MooTools is a simple-to-use JavaScript library, ideal for people with basic JavaScript skills who want to elevate their web applications to a superior level. If you're a newcomer to MooTools looking to build dynamic, rich, and user-interactive web site applications this beginner's guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Downloading and installing MooTools


The first thing we need to do is download a copy of MooTools from the official MooTools website (http://www.mootools.net).

Note

It's important to note that, at the time of this writing, http://www.mootools.com is not associated with MooTools. If you've mistakenly navigated to mootools.com, don't worry, MooTools is alive and well. A simple Google search for "mootools" should result in http://mootools.net/.

What's great about MooTools is that it's extremely modular. You can—as I fondly refer to it—roll your own version of it by downloading only the components that you're going to use. This is important if you want to keep your web applications as light as possible.

For the purpose of this book, you should download the entire MooTools Core so that we can make sure we're all in the same page.