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Re: Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites?

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Post by mpc » Thu, Jun 26, 2008, 3:10 PM UTC

read John Resig's blog ejohn.org, he's also the creator of JQuery.

Re: Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites?

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Post by omouse » Thu, Jun 26, 2008, 3:58 PM UTC

gtani wrote: post #11

browser bugs: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/ Danny goodman's quickref/cheat: http://www.dannyg.com/dl/JSB6RefBooklet.pdf mozilla's JS 1.5 ref http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Gui... jscript / IE deviation from ES 3 http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2007/10/29/ecmascript-... browser testing http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200702/browser_testing... browser market share http…

Mozilla also has pages covering the features in Javascript 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8

Re: Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites?

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Post by Anon84 » Thu, Jun 26, 2008, 8:02 PM UTC

There's a veritable wealth of info over at http://developer.yahoo.com/

The Web Developers Handbook is also pretty useful http://www.alvit.de/handbook/index.php

Re: Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites?

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Post by mechanical_fish » Thu, Jun 26, 2008, 8:43 PM UTC

It is embarrassing to have to admit that I'm only halfway through a book as compact as JavaScript: The Good Parts. But so far it is a very good book.

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...