c3 a écrit : > The prag-prog book is, I'm very sad to say, not so good. For example I > wanted to make a div appear to slide down. The book told me to use the > SlideDown effect, great, but it offered not a single example nor did > it document a single option. I ended up having to read the source to
Hey, I'm sorry the book didn't cut it for you, but I can't let that pass. The book documents every single option available, for every effect; it's just that many combined effects (including SlideDown) do not have any specific option, and "common" options are all explained in detail (from p.258), and every aspect of calling an effect is demo'd elsewhere in the chapter (from p.250 for the basics and the core effects with their options, and after the combined effects list for "advanced" features such as effect queues). Indeed, the "combined" effects do not have individual demos, for several reasons: first, most of them would be difficult to "render on paper". Second, the code for them is usually a one-liner identical to every effect call in the other examples. The chapter referred to Scripty's wiki combined demo page, which is now, indeed, down :-( You can find an alternate version of it (which I prefer, too) in the code for my presentation last July at The Ajax Experience West: http://tddsworld.com/script.aculo.us-demos.zip Again, I'm sorry that you did not find what you wanted in the chapter, but what you're saying here is patently false… Cheers, -- Christophe Porteneuve aka TDD [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
