Chapter 10. AJAX Drag and Drop

When drag-and-drop capability was first introduced to websites, people looked at it with astonishment. This was really a great feature to provide via your website! Since then, JavaScript has evolved in people’s eyes from a “check-out-that-snow-on-my-website” scripting language to a standardized and powerful “do-powerful-stuff-with-it” language.

Many frameworks and JavaScript toolkits have been developed, with new ones appearing frequently. script.aculo.us is one of the most popular JavaScript toolkits, and it allows implementing amazing effects in web pages—check out the examples on its official web page at http://script.aculo.us/. Script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript framework, distributed under an MIT-style license, so you can use it for anything you like, as long as you include the copyright notice. You can download script.aculo.us from http://script.aculo.us/downloads. Check out the documentation on http://wiki.script.aculo.us

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