Cross site Ajax plugin for Prototype

Thierry Schellenbach has implemented a Prototype plugin that allows you to do cross site remoting using the dynamic script tag method that other frameworks such as Dojo and jQuery have supported for awhile.

You can implement this by simply setting crossSite: true as a config parameter to Ajax.Request.

Code example:

new Ajax.Request('myurl', {
method: 'GET',
crossSite: true,
parameters: Form.serialize(obj),
onLoading: function() {
//things to do at the start
},
onSuccess: function(transport) {
//things to do when everything goes well
},
onFailure: function(transport) {
//things to do when we encounter a failure
}
});
the full information can be found on Thierry Schellenbach blog.

ASP.NET JavaScript IntelliSense

A new release of Visual Studio “Orcas” shows off the intellisense features nicely, including:
1) Proactive Completion List: No more waiting for ‘.’
2) Keywords in Completion List: fun your way to function
3) ASP.NET AJAX Concepts in Completion List: Direct support for Atlas
4) IntelliSense from Script Libraries for ASPX Pages: Now you can see objects that exist in other external script files.

This comes along with the release of an updated Ajax Control Toolkit.

more information:
blogs.msdn.com

Microsoft announces the ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 Release

Microsoft has announced the final 1.0 release of ASP.NET Ajax (a.k.a. Atlas).

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
In addition to the fully-supported ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release, you can use the more than 30 free ASP.NET AJAX enabled controls available within the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

moo.fx javascript effects library for prototype.js or mootools framework.

moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework.
It's very easy to use, blazing fast, cross-browser, standards compliant, provides controls to modify any CSS property of any HTML element, including colors, with builtin checks that won't let a user break the effect with multiple, crazy clicks. Optimized to make you write the lesser code possible, the new moo.fx is so modular you can create any kind of effect with it.

more information on moo.fx:
http://moofx.mad4milk.net/

Prototype Event Extension: Event.wheel(e)

Frank Monnerjahn created a Prototype Event extension which makes it trivial to use the mouse wheel in Prototype with Event.observe(..).
The demo shows this in action.
The Code:

/*
* Orginal: http://adomas.org/javascript-mouse-wheel/
* prototype extension by "Frank Monnerjahn" themonnie @gmail.com
*/

extend(Event, {

wheel:function (event){

var delta = 0;

if (!event) event = window.event;

if (event.wheelDelta) {

delta = event.wheelDelta/120;

if (window.opera) delta = -delta;

} else if (event.detail) { delta = -event.detail/3; }

return Math.round(delta); //Safari Round

}

});

/*

* end of extension

*/

var counterSite=0;

function handleSite(e) {

counterSite += Event.wheel(e);

$('delta').innerHTML = counterSite +'#'+ Event.wheel(e) + ": " + (Event.wheel(e) <0 ? 'down' : 'up' );

}

var counterDIV=0;

function handleDIV(e) {

counterDIV += Event.wheel(e);

$('divdelta').innerHTML = counterDIV +'#'+ Event.wheel(e) + ": " + (Event.wheel(e) <0 ? 'down' : 'up' );

}

Usage:
Event.observe(document, "mousewheel", handleSite, false);

Event.observe(document, "DOMMouseScroll", handleSite, false); // Firefox

Event.observe($('divdelta'), "mousewheel", handleDIV, false);

Event.observe($('divdelta'), "DOMMouseScroll", handleDIV, false); // Firefox

W3C DOM vs. innerHTML performance

On of the most important issue developer has to think of when he writes WEB 2.0, AJAX application is JavaScript and browser performance.
I found great test page that intended to find out which method of generating large amounts of content is fastest in the browsers. Of course the results differ significantly from browser to browser.
W3C DOM vs. innerHTML
I hope this link will help improve your client code performance.

More information on JavaScript performance can be on:
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog

Developer Notes for prototype.js

Hi,
Here is a great link that have full explanation on prototype.js, can used as Developer Notes.
http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html

JavaScript AJAX framework prototype dissected

Detail every method and property that was available on prototype AJAX framwork:
http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/prototype_disse/