ERPrototaculous

Introduction

ERPrototaculous was developed to provide the ajax functionality in ERDivaLook.

What is ERPrototaculous?

Features include:

• 'Organic' support for Prototype and Scriptaculous in WebObjects.
• No extending of Prototype
• A set of widgets in the Prototype + Scriptaculous family.
• Use of Unobtrusive Javascript.

Unobtrusive Javascript in ERPrototaculous

Unobtrusive Javascript is used in contrast to ajax on-demand style of programming.
By including Javascript as well as CSS globally in the page wrapper, CSS and/or Javascript doen't have to load inside Ajax requests.

The result is faster and more reliable ajax in WebObjects applications.

Prototype + Scriptaculous Widgets

• Accordion
• LightWindow
• ModalBox
• CalendarDateSelect
• FileUpload

Forms in ERPrototaculous

Differences from using forms in WebObjects. i.e WOForm:

• All form controls must be named. This includes text fields, selects and buttons.
  (WebObjects dynamically assigned names are not compatible with ERPrototaculous).