Practical prototype and part 3: The information in this book is distributed on an "as is" basis, without warranty Although every pre-caution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work. | About the Technical Reviewer After getting hooked on the Web in 1996 and spending several years pushing pixels and bits for the likes of IBM and Konica Minolta AARON GUSTAFSON founded his own web consultancy Easy Designs. Aaron is a member of the Web Standards Project WaSP and the Guild of Accessible Web Designers GAWDS . He also serves as a technical editor for A List Apart is a contributing writer for Digital Web Magazine and MSDN and has built a small library of writing and editing credits in the print world including contributions to AdvancED DOM Scripting friends of ED 2007 Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax APIs and Libraries Apress 2007 and Web Design in a Nutshell Third Edition O Reilly 2006 . Aaron has graced the stage at numerous conferences including An Event Apart COMDEX South by Southwest the Ajax Experience and Web Directions and he is frequently called on to provide web standards training in both the public and private sectors. He blogs at http . xv Acknowledgments number of forces conspired to help me finish this book despite my best efforts not to. Aaron Gustafson was a great help as technical editor and gave thoughtful code critiques. The patient stoic folks at Apress gave me constructive encouragement throughout the slow arduous process. Christophe Porteneuve having written a book on the same subject gave me tips on several occasions. I am also grateful to Sam Stephenson both for creating Prototype and for inviting me to be a part of Prototype Core. Other team members gave critical moral support Thomas Fuchs Tobie Langel Mislav Marohnic and Justin Palmer. Objects as well as people were instrumental in the completion of this book a MacBook Pro TextMate Parallels Desktop and sugar-free Red Bull. I thank them for their support. xvii Introduction I wrote this book for people who have some experience with JavaScript and no experience with Prototype. I mean for experience with JavaScript to cast a wide net you may love JavaScript or .
