www/p5-HTML-Prototype 1.48 OpenBSD

AJAX framework for perl, direct port of the prototype functions and extensions used by various people, including `ruby on rails'

This module has been apparently designed for Catalyst, but it is perfectly usable from other perl frameworks like HTML::Mason, or even straight CGI.

See http://www.maztravel.com/ajax/ for a few examples.

It isolates the programmer from all the gory details of writing Javascript code directly, but not from CSS and HTML.

With this, one can write web applications that support drag-and-drop, or sortable lists, provided the web browser has decent javascript support (which seems to include at least mozilla, firefox, opera, IE, and konqueror these days).

This new version includes a more recent version of the aculous scripts, including sortable trees.