Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears: Using Python to Create Ajax-Powered Sites

Chapter 14. Creating Better JavaScript with MochiKit

In This Chapter

14.1 How to Use This Chapter 226 14.2 Introduction to MochiKit and Its Interactive Shell 228 14.3 Base Functions 229 14.4 Iterators in JavaScript 244 14.5 The Document Object Model 249 14.6 Using MochiKit.Logging to Debug 259 14.7 Working with Color 263 14.8 String Conversions and Value Formatting 269 14.9 Summary 272

Leaving the comfortable and predictable world of Python for the wooly wilderness of in-browser JavaScript can be daunting. We’ve all heard horror stories of strange JavaScript idioms, weird behavior from browser to browser, and the pain of debugging anything in the browser that’s used by more than 85 percent of Internet users. Many of us have lived to tell those ...