Effect.Transfer I really like this effect! It reminds me of ones I'd seen on the terrific TiddlyWiki app as well as the Ajax-y BloxPress blog system for WordPress. It may come as no surprise, in fact, that the effect was developed by the author of BloxPress... as well as numerous other cool web goodies. This effect is intended to augment the collection that comes with Script.aculo.us, and the author provides several useful demos on this page.

DEfusion.org.uk » JavaScript Image Cropper UI, using Prototype & script.aculo.us Amazing! The number and sophistication of widgets and libraries built with Prototype/Scriptaculous have mushroomed since the last time I looked around. Here's one that you can use to enable dynamic image cropping for a website. Gorgeous work... very flexible, and with numerous excellent examples.

gWidgets I do hope this developer continues with these... the four he's released so far all look quite useful and cover a pretty good range of the absolutely necessary list: Tabs, Expandable text, Tool tips, and Popup windows. All done so they can be mixed and matched together in different ways... a lot of good demos here, too.

script.aculo.us Slider Demos and Example Code Damn! I wish these demos had been available when I was building parts of Mars a year ago. But I could find nothing but the demos on the Script.aculo.us wiki site, which didn't cover things like: Scrollwheel activation, use as a scrollbar... the two things I most needed. Oh well... at least they're here now if I need them again!

ModalBox — An easy way to create popups and wizards Here's a very cool javascript library based on Prototype/Scriptaculous: ModalBox is kind of a Lightbox for longer user messages, like "wizards", and could be used for surveys, for example. I love the statement that "it's inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs"... of course! Nearly all the whiz-bang Ajax visual candy that's come out in the last 2 years is derived from the Mac OS X interface. Definitely want to try this one out some time!

Tobie Langel - A Fistful of $$ As readers of Mars have no doubt noticed, I use an autoscroll function to make navigating to different sections of my somewhat lengthy articles easier and more, well, interesting. Programmer Tobie Langel has published a prototype implementation of auto-scrolling that he feels is superior to the one I'm using, which uses the Script.aculo.us "Effect.ScrollTo" function. Hey, I'm always interesting in learning something new and better... And was a little distressed at how the readers of the post on Ajaxian pounced on Langel, acting as if existing tools had this function all wrapped up, and he was an idiot and troublemaker for suggesting an alternative. Very un-Mars-like, guys. I noticed in a subsequent Ajaxian post that the Prototype guys feel they've cleaned up Prototype's $$ function's speed problems in the latest beta, so maybe it's time to take a closer look at solutions like Langel's. His page of autoscroll demos is here.

Ajaxian » Ext Being developed by this brilliant programmer Jack Slocum, who's starting from using the Yahoo Ajax toolkit, Ext is apparently a framework that will support more than just YUI. In fact, Slocum has already incorporated into Ext (which is still in alpha development) support for both jQuery and Prototype/Script.acul.ous. Amazing! The widgets on display at the Ext docs site are incredibly sweet... I've downloaded the latest alpha build myself and hope to play with it shortly. So far every widget I've tried has worked great in WebKit.

script.aculo.us morph effects

Ah, it’s good to see Thomas Fuchs and his cohorts rise to the challenge of the numerous other Ajax effects libraries that have sprung up recently. Apparently, the next version of Script.aculo.us will add tools for animated “morphs” between two objects. It’s cool that he acknowledges inspiration from some of the other prototype-based animation frameworks, even as he adds new features like Morph.

Run / Universal JavaScript Animation Framework / Start Seriously, why so many new JavaScript animation frameworks? Didn't we already have enough good ones? If I were Thomas Fuchs, I'd be wondering where Script.aculo.us went wrong, because since all of these are based on prototype.js, why did other developers feel the need to do Script.aculo.us one better? Frankly, unless one of them shows really unique promise, I'm going to continue counting on Fuchs and company to add more firepower to their genre-defining JavaScript animation library. That said, Run looks pretty darn cool!

MochiKit.Animator Demos Here's another reason why I really need to take a closer look at MochiKit if I ever find the time. MochiKit already includes some Script.aculo.us animation functions, and here the developers have extended another animation alternative (from Bernie Sumption, also based on prototype.js) in an attempt to make a good thing even better. The page has lots of well documented demos.

Gucci Website Now JavaScript-Powered Using Prototype and Script.aculo.us This has simply got to be seen to be believed. It ain't Flash, it's JavaScript. And you know what? It works in all modern browsers, including Safari and Opera! You see, it can be done if you want to reach everyone. Unfortunately, someone at Gucci needs to be told that Opera 9 renders the site just as well as Safari, Firefox, and IE, since for some reason the site prepares Opera users to believe otherwise when they access the Gucci home page.

Script.aculo.us website relaunched: It's About The User Interface, Baby! Looking for the world like something designed with Flash, the new Script.aculo.us home page just begs you to study its underlying code. Those Wollzelle folks are just amazing, and this Prototype.js-based JavaScript library remains one of the premier Ajax/DHTML toolkits around. I really like their new tagline, too! I couldn't agree more.

Prototype & Scriptaculous Bundle Now Available for TextMate I don't use TextMate regularly (yet), but this new bundle may give me another reason to switch.

Ian Selby » Ajax Activity Indicators - Make Them Global and Unobtrusive This is well worth reading, especially if you're already using Prototype and Script.aculo.us. Basically, Selby proposes that activity indicators always be placed in the same spot on the page no matter where the content refresh is occurring, and he provides a seamless way of using Ajax responders to do so without extra coding.

Ajax-Powered Contact Form Justin Perkins developed this version of Dustin Diaz' newly rebuilt-in-YUI ajax contact form in response to a user request on Diaz' website. Disappointingly, Diaz deleted the link to this Prototype version! Why would he do that? Seems pretty small to me. In any case, this seems to be identical in behavior to Diaz' form, just with Prototype on the backend instead of the Yahoo library.

Shopify — A shop in minutes, a business for life. Shopify is a new Web 2.0, Prototype.js and Script.aculo.us-driven e-commerce site. It's the first that tackles the problem of letting end-users start their own business and put items up for sale. It comes with a nice set of themes, plus Vision, an application that lets you customize the theme for your Shopify site. I've already signed up for a free account... the deal is, Shopify gets 3% of your sales. Not a bad deal in comparison with other such places like eBay and GEMM.

Wufoo · Making forms easy + fast + fun.

I couldn’t find my bookmark to this one earlier today and am adding this to the library so that won’t happen again! This is one of the coolest demonstrations of Web 2.0 interface technology I’ve seen. It uses Ajax and the Prototype/Script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries to work its magic.

Ajaxian » The Dojo Toolkit in Practice This is another detailed discussion of using Dojo in an actual application... from start to finish, covering all the aspects one would normally need to learn to build an Ajax app.

Mat's Blog: Tooltips for script.aculo.us Somehow, I think I missed this one when I was collecting tooltips earlier... it's got some nice features including a "toggle section of text" function.

Ajaxariffic Autocomplete with Scriptaculous This looks like a very useful tutorial on the Script.aculo.us autocomplete function and how to use it. It describes the autocomplete demos on the Script.aculo.us website.