Leaving the comfortable and predictable world of Python for the wooly wilderness of in-browser JavaScript can be daunting. We've all heard horror stories of strange JavaScript idioms, weird behavior from browser to browser, and the pain of debugging anything in the browser that's used by more than 85 percent of Internet users. Many of us have lived to tell those tales. Help has arrived, O wary Pythonista! MochiKit has a unique approach in the world of JavaScript libraries: It uses JavaScript the way the language is intended to work, but it also provides many of the functions that are familiar and useful to Python programmers. |