JavaScript Basics for Prototyping

I know there are a good number of designers out there afraid of anything that smells of programming (basically, if it's not plug and play, it's not being used). I completely understand. Dealing with CSS rending across browsers is bad enough already. Because prototypes are all about making an interface 'look' like it works, the dabbling we're going to go over here is actually a process that's amenable to designers (especially those with programming skills that started off as just rudimentary hacking skills). CSS is the domain that most of the new crop of web designers are most comfortable with and so the functions we're going to go over are ones that manipulate, for the most part, the styles of our elements.

Hale, Kevin. Particletree (2006). Design>Web Design>Prototyping>JavaScript