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whocares
Sep 30, 2005, 11:38 AM
I need to beef up my Javascript skills (just realized how usefull it can be :) ).

Does anyone here know of some good web resource on javascript (language reference, list of functions, etc)?

Cheers,
D.


fayans
Sep 30, 2005, 11:47 AM
I need to beef up my Javascript skills (just realized how usefull it can be :) ).

Does anyone here know of some good web resource on javascript (language reference, list of functions, etc)?

Cheers,
D.
I had this site bookmarked for javascript (http://www.javascriptsearch.com/). Hope you find it useful but then again google it should help you to find more of it.
plinden
Sep 30, 2005, 12:04 PM
AJAX is the next big thing in web development, so yes, brush up on your Javascript and XML skills - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
whocares
Sep 30, 2005, 02:18 PM
AJAX is the next big thing in web development, so yes, brush up on your Javascript and XML skills - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

Yeah, I know XML, and am looking at XSL and XSLT as I type this. Good stuff. :cool:
What kills me is all this XML stuff is so simple (at least in its philosophy), yet so powerful in what it can do. :eek: :cool:

I've also answered my own question here (http://www.w3schools.com/). :)
pigwin32
Oct 17, 2005, 05:11 AM
Don't underestimate the power of javascript. There is a lot of good stuff out there but there's also a lot of "hello world" type dross. If you're serious about it, an excellent resource is JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript4/). Online there's The Strange Zen of JavaScript (http://jszen.blogspot.com/) and the legendary and incredibly useful QuirksMode (www.quirksmode.org/).
groovebuster
Oct 17, 2005, 05:24 AM
http://www.javascript.com/ is a collection of copy and paste scripts, but it is interesting how some "problems" were approached by other people. You can learn a lot from analyzing javascripts coded by other people...

groovebuster
groovebuster
Oct 17, 2005, 05:28 AM
Don't underestimate the power of javascript.
I can second that... Most people underestimnate the potential of JavaScript. The software company I have a contract with at the moment writes their whole player software in JavaScript. It is jaw dropping what the guys do with "just" JavaScript!

http://www.kleberg.org/images/smiles/icon_jawdrop.gif

groovebuster
jeremy.king
Oct 18, 2005, 02:10 PM
Its a mirror, so grab the reference while you can.

http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.5/reference/