JavaScript

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Contents 1 Tools 2 Articles 3 Unobtrusive scripting 4 Debugging 5 Accessibility 6 Tutorials and techniques 6.1 Navigation 6.2 Forms 7 Javascript toolkits 8 Opinion 9 Books

Tools

• JavaScript DOM cheat sheet

Articles

• A list apart list of articles on Javascript
• Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005

Unobtrusive scripting

• Unobtrusive javascript: a set of articles about using javascript, yet maintaining accessibility.
• Behavioral separation use classes and id for event handlers on your html mark-up, and access them via external javascript files.
• The importance of maintainable javascript or how to write maintainable, unobtrusive javascript
• Coding conventions

Debugging

• Microsoft script debugger
• Fiddler, does the same thing as livehttpheaders for Mozilla based browsers.

Accessibility

• AJAX and accessibility: the conclusion is that AJAX techniques are not accessible.

Tutorials and techniques

• DOM builder a quicker way of creating HTML elements via js
• transparent rounded corners and borders without junk markup using CSS and Javascript
• Opening new windows with javascript

Navigation

• Accessible dynamic links instead of hiding nested links in a complex navigation when javascript is available, bring nested links into a page that has javascript enabled.

Forms

• Making AJAX forms accessible talks about a technique to hide the submit button in a way that works.

Javascript toolkits

• Lightbox2 overlays images on the current page. Brilliant for portfolios/image gallery
• IBM's Summary of cross-platform DOM Coding
• DOMAss - the DOM assistant
• YUI Yahoo user interface library
• MiniAJAX a collection of simple AJAX scripts. Haven't checked out how well they are written.

Opinion

• http://panela.blog-city.com/ajax_explosion.htm
• http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/AjaxLibraries/
• http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?entry=script_aculo_us_vs_dojo
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/16/javascript-libraries-and-patterns-yahoo-does-ajax/
• http://griddlenoise.blogspot.com/2005/09/prototypejs-and-mochikit.html
• Annoying issue with arrays

Books

• Cameron Adams: The Javascript Anthology
• list of books on Web Standards
• David Flanagan: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly)
• Danny Goodman: Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (O'Reilly)
• Peter-Paul Koch: Ppk on JavaScript (New Riders). Peter-Paul Koch is Quirksmode