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Mootools is a light, modular JavaScript framework that makes adding Ajax, animations, and interactive elements to your site a breeze. But it's more than fancy effects and shortcuts; Mootools enhances the JavaScript language and makes writing clean, object–oriented code almost pleasant. Unlocking the power of Mootools, and therefore JavaScript, isn't that hard, but knowing where to start can be. Mootools Essentials aims to help you accomplish that task with the following:

Illustrations of nearly every class and function in the library
Real–world examples of how to use them
Written by Mootools user/contributor and Mootorial author, Aaron Newton.

See how Mootools makes JavaScript more powerful!

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1430209836
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978-1430209836
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1st ed.
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August 18, 2008
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7.5 x 0.58 x 9.25 inches
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Aaron Newton is a product manager, developer, interface designer, and writer. He is a contributor to the Mootools JavaScript framework where he writes code, the documentation, free online tutorials and the first Mootools book published by Apress. His experience includes founding music startup, Epitonic.com, launching CNET's Download.com Music, and several years product managing application development for various projects at CNET Networks. His startup, Iminta.com, is based in San Francisco.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (August 18, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1430209836
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1430209836
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.58 x 9.25 inches

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Radd Berkheiser

Ditto to the Feelings of Other Reviewers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2010

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I must concur with the views expressed by a number of other reviewers: the lack of an index in anything that calls itself a "reference" is pretty inexcusable. Additionally, none of the pages give an indication as to which section/chapter you are in, making even flipping into a particular area likely to hold needed information a chore as well. Instead, every page lists nothing but the book title and product series... as if I didn't already know what I was holding.

The information contained inside isn't bad per se, but the organization is at times less than straightforward and made more so by the lack of simple publishing standards mentioned above.

The PDF version may be preferable as it should at least be search-able to make up for the structural oversights of the publisher. Hopefully a second edition will include more material and correct these problems, but until then, I couldn't recommend it as a reference.

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Binding Error and publisher unwilling to help

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2009

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I purchased this book with two day shipping for a project with a tight deadline. I got the book on time from Amazon, but there was a binding error and instead of MooTools the inside of the book is "Android Essentials". (Another reviewer seems to have the same problem) I noticed the publisher offered PDF of this book, so I called Springer (the publisher) directly. They were unwilling to send me a PDF of the book so I could get my project done on time. I am not happy. Now I will need to wait many days for this problem to be fixed when a simple PDF could have saved the day. Not a good customer service experience.

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John Porra

Good module overview, not so good for "how to use"

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2009

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Unfortunately, this book only covers a brief overview of what the components of MooTools offers. It doesn't really go into how you can use them to your benefit.

That being said, even the author thinks that there was a lot left out of this book, and is putting it into version 2.

One thing that's really missing is an index. That alone would have given it an extra star.

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Pappa Smurf

Does not cover it all

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2014

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The book was ok, but did not cover the options that I was interested in. Now I have to go buy another book on MooTools, most likely the Pro JavaScript with MooTools also by APress.

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MadScientistFarmer

wrong book inside the cover?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2009

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I just received MooTools Essentials by Aaron Newton from Amazon.com but inside the cover it is "Android Essentials" by Chris Haseman

Interesting as this book is only half the number of pages 112 instead of 276 - I would think the binder would have noticed the cover did not fit right

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framontb

A usefull book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2010

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This book is a reference book about Mootools, with a lot of litle examples. I miss a more complete set of examples in the chapter about ajax and many others. But in short: a usefull book.

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B. Schick

Technically inaccurate

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2008

While it is great to have a book about MooTools, this one unfortunately has problems. It is filled with small and large technical inaccuracies and omissions. If you already know JavaScript and the DOM and can read past the errors, this book provides an average overview of MooTools. If you are new to JavaScript or the DOM, I'd suggesting staying away from this book until you know more. Otherwise it will leaving you with misconceptions.

For example, the description of the very important 'this' keyword is just wrong. The book says that 'this' "represents the current scope", which is not true. The 'this' keyword actually refers to the object on which a method is executing or the global object. A common small error is for the author to write "syntax" when he means "semantics". An error by omission is that the reason for needing all the 'bind' stuff is never even discussed (the reason being that MooTools uses a custom event dispatch system rather than assigning functions directly to event properties). There are plenty more.

I also find it misleadings that the tagline on the front cover is "The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScript and Ajax Development", yet in many places the author says something like "I'm not going to describe that feature here, see the online documentation for information". That makes for a rather poor "official reference".

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D. Crowell

Sorry but...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2008

I have never written a book review before. I have read hundreds of technical computer books. I have a huge library that is used frequently. Maybe it's because I am more familiar with jquery but.... This is possibly the worst technical book I have ever purchased. Would it have been too much to include an index? I'm old so I appreciate the large print, but I suspect that they increased the font size to fill out the length to the sparse 276 pages. Chapter 13. Real World examples has a GIANT 3 examples on 5 pages. In fact the real problem with this book is the overall dearth of examples. With all the online resources available I still buy books because I like their portability and ease of use. Unfortunately with this book the only portability I am interested in is it's trip across the room onto the nearest wall. I feel bad about writing a bad review and I apologize to the author, as I am sure it was a lot of work. I'm afraid that it is probably the result of the editor and publisher that they released a product that was not yet polished. It may have been rushed out the door. Of course this is just my opinion, but please take an extra long look at the contents before you purchase.

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Ben Clay

Frustrating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 12, 2010

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It's a reference book; that's what it says on the front. So it's not something you'd read from cover to cover to understand what MooTools can do for you. The ideal use of this book is to dip in and quickly refer to functions and parameters you need and there's the rub...

There is no index (ok, there is an extensive contents section); and the footer on every page tell you the title of the book (conventional but useless) the publisher (as if I care) and the page number. Where is the chapter number & title so I can quickly flick through and find the rough area for what I'm looking for? I found this a frustrating book to navigate.

I've awarded 3 stars but sadly for this book one of those was granted because of the subject matter. I love MooTools but I expect/hope there are better organised books about.

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Segun

Moot Tools

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 8, 2010

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Yes, so I'm sure it's a good book, but I've hardly read it as I'm a jQuery ninja and so is everyone around me where I work and blah, blah. Still might pick it up one day, thanks.

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