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JavaScript

Tutorials

3 Steps To Writing JavaScript - Chris Casciano
A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript - Simon Willison
An Introduction to Javascript - University of Saskatchewan
Advanced JavaScript III - Howard Feldman
Douglas Crockford's Wrrrld Wide Web - Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford: 'Advanced JavaScript' Video
ECMAScript Scripting Reference
Getting started with JavaScript - webdevtips.com
Introduction to JavaScript (ETech 2006 Tutorial) - Phil Windley
JavaScript 101 - gurusnetwork.com
JavaScript 101 - Part 1 - Kevin Yank
- JavaScript 101 - Part 2 - Kevin Yank
- JavaScript 101 - Part 3 - Kevin Yank
JavaScript 101 - Part 1: The Basics - Rob Williams
JavaScript/DHTML Tutorial - David R. Adams and Kevin S. Floyd
JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer - webteacher.com
JavaScript Language Essentials - Tom Negrino and Dori Smith
JavaScript Section - Peter-Paul Koch
JavaScript Tutorial - Mark Wilton-Jones
JavaScript Tutorial By tizag.com
JavaScript Tutorial By w3schools.com
Keep JavaScript Simple - Peter-Paul Koch
Learning JavaScript - Jeremy Keith
Separating Behavior and Structure - Peter-Paul Koch
Simply JavaScript: The Three Layers of the Web - Kevin Yank
The JavaScript Diaries: Part 1 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 2 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 3 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 4 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 5 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 6 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 7 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 8 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 9 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 10 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 11 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 12 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 13 - Lee Underwood
- The JavaScript Diaries: Part 14 - Lee Underwood
The JavaScript Programming Language - Douglas Crockford
Using Javascript - Mark C. Reynolds, et. al.
Using Variables and Built-in Functions to Update Your Web Pages Automatically - Thau!
What is JavaScript?

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Accessibility of JavaScript

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)
- ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications - Mozilla
- ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications/Relationship to HTML FAQ - Mozilla
- ARIA in HTML5 Integration: Document Conformance (Draft) - Henri Sivonen
  - ARIA in HTML5 Integration: Document Conformance (Draft, Take Two) - Henri Sivonen
- aria-templateid Explained - David Bolter
- ARIA Test Pages - Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility
- ARIA Toggle Button and Tri-state Checkbox Examples - Steve Faulkner
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Drafts
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications Update - Martin Kliehm
- Applying WAI-ARIA to Yahoo! Mail - Steve Faulkner
- Easy ARIA Tip #1: Using aria-required - Marco Zehe
  - Easy ARIA tip #2: aria-labelledby and aria-describedby - Marco Zehe
- WAI-ARIA Best Practices - Lisa Pappas, Michael Cooper, and Richard Schwerdtfeger.
- AxsJAX
  - AxsJAX Frequently Asked Questions - Google
  - Introducing AxsJAX -- Access-Enabling AJAX - Charles L. Chen and T.V Raman
  - The AxsJAX Framework for ARIA - Gez Lemon
- New WAI-ARIA Working Drafts Published - Steve Faulkner
- Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications - W3C
- Safari Gets Support for ARIA - Gez Lemon <
- SXSW Core Conversation - Gez Lemon
- Syntax for ARIA: Cost-benefit analysis - Henry S. Thompson <
- Using WAI-ARIA Roles and States with the YUI Menu Control - Todd Kloots
- WAI-ARIA in HTML - Gez Lemon
- WAI-ARIA Live Regions - Gez Lemon
508 Standards.
- 508 (l) Scripts - the Access Board
- Section 508 Checklist - Jonathan Whiting
WCAG Guidelines.
- WCAG Checkpoint 6.3
- Noscript Tag
  - Example: A text equivalent for scripts - Chuck Letourneau & Geoff Freed
- Alternative Accessible Page
  - WCAG Checkpoint 8.1
  - Example: Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported - Chuck Letourneau & Geoff Freed
- Event Handlers / Device Independence
  - Accessible Event Pairs - Peter-Paul Koch
  - Accessible JavaScript: Beyond the Mouse - James Edwards
  - Accessible JavaScript tip #43: onchange select menu - Cameron Adams
  - Event Handlers - James Craig, Jim Allan, and Rob Sartin
  - Example: For scripts, specify logical event handlers rather than device-dependent event handlers - Chuck Letourneau & Geoff Freed
  - JavaScript Event Tests Part 1: onmouseover - Gez Lemon
  - JavaScript Interaction Must be Input Device Independent - Roger Johansson
  - JavaScript Keyboard Accessibility - Kevin Yank
  - JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events - Jan Wolter
  - WCAG Checkpoint 9.3
  - WCAG Checkpoint 6.4
Other JavaScript Accessibility Articles and Tutorials.
- A Scripting Carol - Derek Featherstone
- Alert Boxes, Error Messages, and Pop-up Windows - Stanford University
- An Attempt for a More Accessible Edit-In-Place Solution - Chris Heilmann
- Accessibility Testing of Scripts - Jim Ley
- Building Accessible Widgets for the Web - Mike West
- Building Accessible Web Applications - Steve Faulkner
- Creating Accessible JavaScript - Jared Smith
- DHTML Accessibility - Fixing the JavaScript Accessibility Problem - Rich Schwerdtfeger and Becky Gibson
- Dynamic Accessible Web Content Roadmap - W3C
- Ensure links work when Javascript doesn't - Jim Byrne
- Flash, JavaScript, and Providing Alternative Content - Jonathan Christopher
- Improving Form Accessibility with DOM Scripting - Ian Lloyd
- How do scripting languages affect accessibility? - Acesss IT
- JavaScript and Accessibility - Derek Featherstone
- JavaScript Accessibility Issues - TRACE
- JavaScript, Accessibility, Microformats - Bruce Lawson
- JavaScript and Accessibility by Peter-Paul Koch
- JavaScript and Accessibility, Part 1 - Jonathan Fenocchi
- JavaScript and Accessibility, Part 2 - Jonathan Fenocchi
- JavaScript and Accessibility, Part 3 - Jonathan Fenocchi
- JavaScript and Screenreaders - Derek Featherstone
- JavaScript and Screen Readers - Kevin Yank -
- JavaScript Contrast Class - Gez Lemon
- JavaScript SkillBuilder: Making 'Do' Without - Jon Brundage
- More Usability Frosting for Your Accessibility Cake - Aaron Gustafson
- .NET, WCAG, Javascript and Accessibility - Jack Pickard
- Noscript
  - <noscript> tag - w3schools
  - NOSCRIPT - Non-script Content - Web Design Group
  - No noscript, m’kay? - Robert Nyman
- Results for JavaScript - Part 1: Navigating Links - James Edwards, Mike Stenhouse, Derek Featherstone and Ben Easton
- Scripts and Applets - Jim Thatcher
- Screen Readers and Javascript - Steve Faulkner
- You Cannot Rely on JavaScript Being Available. Period - Roger Johansson
- Web 2.0 Affecting Accessibility? - Paul Crichton
- Web Accessibility Standards: Scripts - University of Minnesota

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AJAX (Asynchronous JAvaScript + XML or Asynchronous JAvascript using XMLHttpRequest)

7 Things About AJaX - Dion Hinchcliffe
A Simpler Ajax Path - Matthew Eernisse
Adobe's Spry Framework for AJAX - Drew McLellan
Ajax: 99 Percent Bad - Johnnie Manzari
Ajax, Ajax Everywhere - Derek Powazek
AJAX: A Fresh Look at Web Development - Edmon Begoli
AJAX: A New Approach to Web Applications - Jesse James Garrett
AJAX and Accessibility/Usability/Responsibility
- AJAX and Screen Readers: Content Access Issues - Steve Faulkner
- Accessibility and Usability Issues with AJAX - Joe Dolson
- Accessibility Is Seldom Just Up To The Interface Developer - Robert Nyman
- Accessibility Issue Comes to a Head - Carol Sliwa
- Accessibility of AJAX Application: Part 1 - Jared Smith
- AJAX Access - Andrew Kirkpatrick
- AJAX, Accessibility and the User - Henny Swan
- AJAX Accessibility for Websites - Brigitte Simard
- AJAX Accessibility Overview - Becky Gibson
- AJAX Accessibility Issue Caught Vendors Attention. Is this a Major Issue? - Hari K. Gottipati
- AJAX and Accessibility by Peter Krantz
- AJAX and Accessibility by Sandy Clark
- Ajax and Screenreaders - Jeremy Keith
- AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? - James Edwards
- AJAX and Usability Issues - Emma Tonkin
- Ajax Framework Bindows Addresses Accessibility Requirements - JavaScript Search
- AJAX is Cleaning Up: Rich Web Applications Amplify Accessibility Needs - Kelsey Ruger
- AJAX, JavaScript and Accessibility - Robert Nyman
- AJAX Usability Checklist - Frank Spillers
- An Important Lesson Learned About AJAX and Accessibility - Robert Nyman
- Are Ajax and Accessibility Mutually Exclusive? - Marco Zehe
- Can AJAX Find Harmony on Agency Web Sites? - Wade-Hahn Chan
- Developers Working to Overcome AJAX Accessibility Issues - Darryl K. Taft
- Drag and Drop
  - Docking Boxes (dbx) - James Edwards (brothercake)
  - Drag and Drop - Peter-Paul Koch
  - Drag and Drop Controls - Free Usability Advice
  - Drag 'n Drop is Invisible To Users - Jared Spool
  - Interview with Jakob Nielsen (implementations of AJAX question 1) - Matt Mickiewicz
  - Usability by Hand, AJAX and Efficiency - Thomas Baekdal
- Hijax
  - Ajax and Accessibility: You're Doing it Wrong (Hijax) - Rob Cherny
    - Accessible Ajax, A Basic Hijax Example - Rob Cherny
  - Ajax, Hijax and Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
  - Introduction to HIJAX - Ivan Pepelnjak
  - Hijax - Jeremy Keith
  - Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax - Jeremy Keith
- Beyond Ajax: Software Development, Two Years from Now - Esther Schindler
- IBM Endorses Dojo and Lends Accessibility Support - James Craig
- Improving Ajax Applications for JAWS Users - Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner
  - Improving Accessibility for Today's AJAX - To Hack or Not? - Bob Easton
- JavaScript And AJAX Accessibility - Becky Gibson
- Joe Clark on AJAX Accessibility - Joe Clark
- Let's Make 2008 the Year of Embracing the Server Side with Ajax - Christian Heilmann
- Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers - Gez Lemon
- New Web Leaving Millions Behind - David Senf
- Responsible Asynchronous Scripting - Shaun Inman
- Slower Website == Slower Profits - Dare Obasanjo
- Stop using Ajax! - James Edwards
- The Impact of Ajax on User Experience - Part 1 - Cindy Lu
- Today's AJAX and DHTML Best Practices - Bob Easton
- Transparency in Ajax Applications - Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan
- Quiz: AJAX - Automatically Move Focus? - Bob Easton
- Usability and accessibility with AJAX - Simon Willison
- Usability by Hand, AJAX and Efficiency - Thoman Baekal
- Use AJAX Scripting Responsibly - Roger Johansson
- User-Proofing Ajax - Peter Quinsey
- Will Federal Court Ruling Over target.com Effect Ajax Development? - Hari K. Gottipati
- Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous... - Jakob Nielsen
Ajax and Progressive Enhancement - Jason Landry
AJAX and JavaScript - Because You Should, Not Because You Can - Garrett Dimon
AJAX Debugging with Firebug - Joe Hewitt
AJAX Design Terminology - Cameron Moll
AJAX for SEO Considered Harmful - Straight Up Search
AJAX: Getting Started - Mozilla Developer Center (Also known "Devmo", short for "DEVeloper.Mozilla.Org")
AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons - Brad Neuberg
Ajax in Action. Chapter 6: The User Experience - Dave Crane and Eric Pascarello with Darren James
Ajax in Action. Chapter 8 - Dave Crane and Eric Pascarello with Darren James
Ajax is Squeezed as Adobe Builds up Rival Flex Toolset - Cliff Saran
Ajax Link Tracker - Glenn Jones
Ajax on Rails - Curt Hibbs
Ajax Patterns - Michael Mahemoff
Ajax Reconsidered - Adam Bosworth
Ajax Use Patterns - Peter-Paul Koch
AJAX: Your Take - D. Keith Robinson
Ajaxian.com - Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith
Alternate Ajax Techniques, Part 1 - Nicholas C. Zakas
An Introduction to AJAX - Emma Tonkin
ASK - AJAX Source Kit - Robert Nyman
Best Practices: Implementing Javascript for Rich Internet Applications - Austin Govella
Call an Apple an Apple - Ian Hickson
Designing for the Subtlety of Ajax - Jeff Veen
Django and AJAX - James Bennet
Documenting the Design of Rich Internet Applications: A Visual Language for State - Richard F. Cecil
Edit-in-Place with Ajax - Drew McLellan
Embrace the Remote Scripting Revolution Via AJAX - Tony Patton
Errors and AJAX - Joshua Gitlin
Easy Ajax with Prototype - Drew McLellan
Explaining Ajax, Transcribed - Jeremy Keith
Fixing the Back Button that AJAX Broke - Mike Davies
Flash-Only vs. AJAX Sites - Emil Stenstrom
For Many AJAX is Not Degrading, But it Must - Thomas Vander Wal
Front-End Architecture: AJAX and DOM Scripting - Garret Dimon
Getting Started with Ajax - Aaron Gustafson
How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax, Pt. 1 - Jonathan Fenocchi
Increasing the Strength of Ajax - Eric A. Meyer
Is AJAX Here to Stay? - Jordan Frank
JavaScript 1, 2, and in between - Brendan Eich
JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web - Brendan Eich
JavaScript and XML - David Flanagan
- More on JavaScript and XML - David Flanagan
Javascript: What's Next? - Alessandro Fulciniti
Life After Ajax? - Micah Dubinko
LoJAX (Low-technology AJAX) - James Edwards
Proudly Presenting AJAX-S! - Robert Nyman
- AJAX-S, Release 2! - Robert Nyman
Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials - Max Kiesler
Statistical AJAX - Steve Smith
Step by Step to AJAX - Jayaram Krishnaswamy
Take Command With AJAX - Stoyan Stefanov
The Ajax/Flash Continuum - Jeremy Keith
Making AJAX Navigation Optional - Christian Heilmann
Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax - Brett McLaughlin
- Mastering Ajax, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax - Brett McLaughlin
- Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced Requests and Responses in Ajax - Brett McLaughlin
- Mastering Ajax, Part 4: Exploiting DOM for Web Response - Brett McLaughlin
- Mastering Ajax, Part 5: Manipulate the DOM - Brett McLaughlin
Remote Scripting with AJAX, Part 1 - Cameron Adams
- Remote Scripting with AJAX, Part 2 - Cameron Adams
State of Ajax: Progress, Challenges, and Implications for SOAs - Dion Hinchcliffe
The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax - Ryan Campbell
The Impact of Ajax on User Experience - Part 1 - Cindy Lu
The Right Way to do Ajax is Declaratively - Duncan Cragg
Understanding Ajax: Getting Started - Joshua Eichorn
Using Ajax - Phil Ballard
Very Dynamic Web Interfaces - Drew McLelland
Web Design with Ajax - Brett McLaughlin
What Has AJAX Ajax Done For Us Anyway? - James Edwards
Will AJAX Help Google Clean Up? - Paul Festa
Why Ajax Isn't Web 2 - Anne Van Kesteren
Why Ajax Matters Now - Jesse James Garrett
Why Ajax Sucks (Most of the Time) - A Spoof Article Constructed by Chris McEvoy with Apologies to Jakob Nielsen
XAJAX - xajax Wiki
XML Responses and AJAX - Jayaram Krishnaswamy
XMLHttpRequest Object - W3C
- IE7 XMLHttpRequest - Native or Not? - Michael Mahemoff
- See How the XMLHttpRequest Object is the Heart and Soul of AJAX - Tony Patton
- Using the XML HTTP Request object - Jim Ley
- Using the XMLHttpRequest Object and AJAX to Spy On You - Earle Castledine
- Progressive enhancement using XmlHttpRequest - Jeremy Keith
- This is Not Another XMLHttpRequest Article - Cameron Adams
- The Road to Cross-Domain XMLHttpRequest - Anne Van Kesteren
- XmlHttpRequest - Apple
- XMLHttpRequest By MozillaZine
- XMLHttpRequest for The Masses - Drew McLellan
- XMLHttpRequest Functions - Peter-Paul Koch
- XmlHttpRequest Intro
- XMLHttpRequest posts - Peter-Paul Koch

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Arrays

Accessing Arrays - David R. Adams
An in Depth Discussion of JavaScript Arrays - Jagadish Chaterjee
Array Methods- David R. Adams
Corresponding Arrays - David R. Adams
Create Data Structures with JavaScript Arrays - Tony Patton
Creating Arrays - David R. Adams
Creating two-dimensional Arrays - JavascriptKit
Defining arrays using literal notation - JavascriptKit.
JavaScript ‚'Associative Arrays‚'Considered Harmful - Andrew Dupont
JavaScript Arrays - Dan Wellman
JavaScript Arrays: Combining and Splitting - Jagadish Chaterjee
JavaScript Arrays: Copying, Transferring and Merging - Jagadish Chaterjee
JavaScript Arrays: Pushing, Popping and Shifting - Jagadish Chaterjee
Parsing Array Strings - David R. Adams
Simulating array_unique in JavaScript - Christian Heilmann
The JavaScript Diaries: Part 13 - Lee Underwood

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Basic Input and Output

Alert Boxes - David R. Adamsr
Prompt Boxes - David R. Adamsr
Confirm Boxes - David R. Adamsr

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Browser Object Model (BOM)

The JavaScript Diaries: Part 7 - Lee Underwood

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Comments

Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference: Comments - Mozilla Developer Center
Javascript Comments - tizag

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Debugging/Best Practices

Advanced JavaScript Debugging Techniques - Mike Wilcox
Choosing a JavaScript Framework - Roger Johansson.
Debugging in Javascript - Chris Root
Debugging JavaScript Without Alerts - Jeremy Keith
Do You Validate your JavaScript Code? - Robert Nyman.
Javascript Debugging: IE Option gotcha - Simon Willison
JavaScript Debugging, Part 1 of 3 - Jeff Howden
JavaScript Errors - James Payne
JavaScript Error Handling - Chris Casciano
JavaScript: It's Just Not Validation! - Colin Morris
Maintainable JavaScript Slides - Christian Heilmann
Microsoft Script Debugger (for Internet Explorer)
The Importance of Maintainable JavaScript - Christian Heilmann
Updated: Open Firefox JavaScript Console in a Sidebar - Jim Rutherford
Using Hash for JavaScript Debugging - Jesse Skinner
Using Opera to Troubleshoot Javascript Errors in IE - CodeGirl
Validators: Introducing Struts Validator Framework - A.P. Rajshekhar
Venkman JavaScript Debugger

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Decision Making/ Conditionals

I'd Rather Switch Than Fight! - Douglas Crockford
The if Statement - David R. Adams
The if...else Statement - David R. Adams
The if...else if Statement - David R. Adams
The switch Statement - David R. Adams

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Document Object Model

2005: The year of the DOM - Simon Willison
An Introduction to the W3C DOM - Steve Chipman
DHTML Document Object Model - w3 schools
Document Object Model (DOM) - W3C
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification - W3C
DOM Events - Wikipedia
DOM Scripting Essentials in Under 10 Minutes - Christian Heilmann
DOM Scripting: Unobtrusive JavaScript at Its Best - Lee Underwood
Douglas Crockford Does the DOM on Video - Christian Heilmann
Dynamic Content with DOM-2 - Apple
From DHTML to DOM Scripting - Christian Heilmann
How I Learned to Stop Programming and Love the DOM - Christian Montoya
How To Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting - Aaron Gustafson and Jeremy Keith
HTML DOM Tutorial - w3schools
Introduction to the Document Object Model - Mike Hall
Introduction to DOM by Dr Sam
Is Manipulating the DOM for Presentation Acceptable? - Jonathan Christopher
Javascript, the DOM and application/xhtml+xml - Simon Willson
Level 0 DOM - Peter-Paul Koch
Level 1 DOM
- Edit text - Peter-Paul Koch
- innerHTML vs. DOM = Pot Noodles vs. Real Cooking - Christian Heilmann
- Table of Contents script - Peter-Paul Koch
- Textarea Maxlength - Peter-Paul Koch
- getElementsByTagNames() - Peter-Paul Koch
- Using DOM Methods Rather Than innerHTML to Wrap All Children of a Node into a New Element - Thierry Koblentz
- W3C methods vs. innerHTML - Peter-Paul Koch
PPK on JavaScript: The DOM - Part 1 - Peter-Paul Koch
- PPK on JavaScript: The DOM - Part 2 - Peter-Paul Koch
- PPK on JavaScript: The DOM - Part 3 - Peter-Paul Koch
The Document Object Model - David Flanagan
The Document Object Model- David R. Adams
The DOM And Screen Readers - Gez Lemon
The Seven Rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript - Christian Heilmann
Roaming Through XMLDOM: An AJAX Prerequisite - Jayaram Krishnaswamy
W3C DOM - Ryan Frishberg
W3C DOM -Introduction - Peter-Paul Koch
- W3C DOM Compatibility Tables - Peter-Paul Koch
- W3C DOM Compatibility - Core - Peter-Paul Koch
- Compatibility - HTML - Peter-Paul Koch
- Compatibility - CSS- Peter-Paul Koch
- Compatibility - Events - Peter-Paul Koch
W3C DOM introduction by Mark Wilton-Jones

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Events and Events Handlers

A Note About Event Bubbling - Peter-Paul Koch
Bonsai - A Loopless Tree Menu Using Event Delegation - Christian Heilmann
- Event Delegation versus Event Handling - Christian Heilmann
DOM Events - Wikipedia
Event Compatibility Tables - Peter-Paul Koch
Event Delegation with JavaScript - Robert Nyman <
Event-Driven Web Application Design - Christian Heilmann
Event Handlers and Callback Functions - Sjoerd Visscher
Event Handling Versus Event Delegation - Christian Heilmann
Events in JavaScript: An Inside Look - Aaron Weiss
Event Handling in JavaScript - an Alternative addEvent Solution - Robert Nyman
Introduction to Events - Peter-Paul Koch
- The events - Peter-Paul Koch
- Early event handlers- Peter-Paul Koch
- Traditional event registration model - Peter-Paul Koch
- Advanced event registration models - Peter-Paul Koch
- Event accessing - Peter-Paul Koch
- Event properties - Peter-Paul Koch
- Event order - Peter-Paul Koch
JavaScript Events - James Payne

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Forms

Accessing Form Data Via JavaScript and the DOM - Tony Patton
Autopopulating Text Input Fields With JavaScript - Roger Johansson
Beginning JavaScript (Forms)
Developing a Simple Validation Library in JavaScript - Jagadish Chaterjee
Exception Handling in JavaScript: Validating forms Introduction - Alejandro Gervasio
- Exception Handling in JavaScript: Addressing Browser Incompatibilities - Alejandro Gervasio
Form Prepopulation - Patrick H. Lauke
Form Validation - Paul Adams
Form Validation with JavaScript Regular Expressions (Part 1) - Dan Wellman
- Form Validation with JavaScript Regular Expressions (Part 2) - Dan Wellman
Forms Processing Emergence - JavaScripted - Jacques Surveyer
Generic Form Validation Routine - Gez Lemon
Highlighting Form Fields with Unobtrusive JavaScript - Adam Kalsey
How Can I Track the Change in a Form Field Before the Form Was Submitted - Christian Heilmann
Introduction to Forms - Peter-Paul Koch
- Example Form - Peter-Paul Koch
- Usable Forms - Peter-Paul Koch
- Extending Forms - Peter-Paul Koch
- Error Messages - Peter-Paul Koch
Introducing Key Concepts for Form Validation with the DOM - Alejandro Gervasio
Results for JavaScript - Part 2: Navigating Forms - Bob Easton
Revealing Relationships Can Be Good Form - Ian Lloyd
Simple Javascript and Forms - Mike Davies (Isolani)
Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms - Simon Willson
Tackling Automatic Field Focus Usability Issues - Christian Heilmann
Taming the Select - Chris Heilmann
Trimming Form Fields - Andy Clarke
Unobtrusive and Keyboard Accessible Connected Select Boxes - Roger Johansson

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Functions

addEvent() Considered Harmful - Peter-Paul Koch
- addEvent() Recoding Contest - Peter-Paul Koch
Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference:Functions - Mozilla Developer Center
Don't be eval() - Simon Willison
Functions - Peter-Paul Koch
JavaScript Functions are Variables - Jesse Skinner
Top 10 Custom JavaScript Functions of All Time - Dustin Diaz
Using Named Arguments in JavaScript Functions - David Andersson (Liorean)
Using Multiple JavaScript Onload Functions - Lee Underwood
Using Variables and Built-in Functions to Update Your Web Pages Automatically - Thau!

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JavaScript and CSS

Automatic Pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS - Roger Johansson
CSS Bubble Tooltips - Alessandro Fulciniti
CSS Minimum and Maximum Sizes - Andrew Clover
CSS modification
- style vs. classNames - Peter-Paul Koch
- Find positions - Peter-Paul Koch
- Get styles - Peter-Paul Koch
- Change style sheet - Peter-Paul Koch
- Opacity setting - Peter-Paul Koch
- Styling an input type="file" - Peter-Paul Koch
- Element dimensions - Peter-Paul Koch
CSS Photo Shuffler - Carl Camera
Dynamic CSS Changes - Ryan Campbell
How to Print Selective Sections of a Web Page using CSS and DOM - Ian Lloyd
Stop Using Poor Performance CSS Expressions - Use JavaScript Instead - Robert Nyman
The Future is Hybrids - How JavaScript can Purify Pure CSS Solutions - Christian Heilmann
Transitional CSS and JavaScript Strategies - Makiko Itoh
Using CSS and Dynamic Classes to Avoid Loops - Chris Heilmann

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Keywords/ Reserved Words

Is this Overrated? - Jonathan Snook
JavaScript : Keywords
JavaScript Reserved Words
JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya - Douglas Crockford
Javascript - The this keyword - Peter-Paul Koch
Programming: JavaScript:Reserved Words - Wikibooks,
Reserved Words

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Libraries and Frameworks

Again JavaScript Libraries - Peter Paul Koch
Ajax/DHTML Library Scorecard: How Cross Platform Are They? - Leland Scott
Dear JavaScript Library Developers.. - Christian Heilmann
Developing a Simple Validation Library in JavaScript - Jagadish Chaterjee
EJ - The Only JavaScript Library You'll Ever Need - Robert Nyman
Learn JavaScript Before Tasting the Library Kool-Aid - Roger Johansson
JavaScript Frameworks - Concept vs. Code Libraries - Robert Nyman
JavaScript Newbies: Beware of Libraries - Dustin Diaz
JavaScript Panel Podcast: "JavaScript Libraries: Friend Or Foe?"
Your Own Personal Library - Jeremy Keith
Survey of AJAX/JavaScript Libraries - wiki.osafoundation.org
Yahoo! User Interface Library - Yahoo

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Loops

JavaScript Loop Performance - Robert Nyman
More Loops and Events - James Payne
Nested Loops - David R. Adams
The do...while Statement - David R. Adams
The break/continue Statements - David R. Adams
The for Statement - David R. Adams
The while Statement - David R. Adams

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Objects, OOP

Extending Prototypes of Built-In Objects - David Andersson (liorean)
I Object - Douglas Crockford
Intro to Object Oriented JavaScript - Chris Casciano
How To Create Unique Automatic JavaScript Objects - Philip Chalmers
Javascript Cloning Objects - Gareth Heyes
JavaScript Core Objects Part 1 - Ellie Quigley
JavaScript Core Objects Part 2 - Ellie Quigley
JavaScript Date Methods - Tiff Fehr
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
- Introducing JSON - Douglas Crockford
- JavaScript Object Notation: An alternative approach to data interchange - Tony Patton
- JSON - Wikipedia
- JSON All The Way - Drew McLellan
- JSON in JavaScript - Douglas Crockford
- JSON for the Masses - Dustin Diaz
- There is Nothing More Permanent than a Temporary Hack - Aaron Straup Cope
Manipulate Time and Date Values with JavaScript's Date Object - Tony Patton
Object Detection - Peter-Paul Koch
Object-Oriented Concepts - Tim Huegdon
Object-Oriented Javascript - Tim Huegdon
Object-Oriented JavaScript - Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea
- Object-Oriented JavaScript: Part 2 - Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea
- Object-Oriented JavaScript: Part 3 - Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea
Object-Oriented JavaScript: An Introduction to Core Concepts - Alejandro Gervasio
Object Oriented Javascript - Part 1 - Guyon Roche
- Object Oriented Javascript - Part 2 - Guyon Roche
Objectifying JavaScript - Jonathan Snook
OOP in JavaScript - Sergey Zavadski
OOJS - Overhyped and Overcomplicating - David Andersson (liorean)
Quick Explanation of the Object Literal - Christian Heilmann
Using Data Objects - David R. Adams

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Operators

Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference:Operators - Mozilla Developer Center
JavaScript Operators - w3schools
The Power of JavaScript: Operators - Michael Youssef
- The Power of Javascript: Operators continued - Michael Youssef
- The Power of Javascript: Operators concluded - Michael Youssef
Using The Assignment Operator Instead Of The Equality Operator - Peter-Paul Koch

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Regular Expressions

Data Validation with JavaScript and Regular Expressions - Tony Patton
ECMAScript 3 Regular Expressions: A Specification That Doesn't Make Sense - David Andersson (Liorean)
Escaping Regular Expression Characters in JavaScript - Simon Willison
Form Validation with JavaScript Regular Expressions (Part 1) - Dan Wellman
Form Validation with JavaScript Regular Expressions (Part 2) - Dan Wellman
Javascript Regular Expressions - Gareth Heyes
Programmer's Guide to Regular Expressions - David Anderson
Regular Expressions in JavaScript by Alejandro Gervasio
Regular Expressions in JavaScript - David Andersson

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Unobtrusive Javascript / Progressive Enhancement / Graceful Degradation / Best Practices

A Guide to Unobtrusive Javascript Validation - Chris Campbell
Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries - Jonathan Snook
Adobe Spry and Obtrusive, Inaccessible JavaScript - Roger Johansson
Avoiding Evil JavaScript - Kevin Yank
Behavioral Separation - Jeremy Keith
Deck the Halls with Unobtrusive JavaScript - Ara Pehlivanian
DHTML is Dead. Long Live DOM Scripting - Jeremy Keith
DOM Scripting Best Practices - Jeremy Keith
Fluid Thinking - Peter-Paul Koch
Graceful Degradation and Progressive Enhancement - Tommy Olsson
Handling JavaScript-Disabled Browsers - Kevin Yank
Have Your DOM and Script It Too - Shaun Inman
Making JavaScript Applications Degrade Gracefully - Alejandro Gervasio
Perpetuating the Myths of JavaScript Degradation. - Jeremy Keith
Questioning Unobtrusive JavaScript - Jeremy Keith
Standards Activists Target Scripts - Paul Festa
The JavaScript Environmentalist - Jonathan Snook
The JavaScript Manifesto - Web Standards Project
The Rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript - Roger Johansson
Unobtrusive Behavior Layer - Steve Chipman
Unobtrusive Connected Select Boxes - Yet Another Solution Approach - Christian Heilmann
Unobtrusive Javascript - Christian Heilmann
Writing Responsible JavaScript - Drew McLellan

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Scope

Getting Funky With Scopes and Closures - Mark Wubben
Scope in JavaScript - Mike West
Variable Scope for New Programmers - Jonathan Snook

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Security

Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Execution Bug is a Huge Security Issue - Nitesh Dhanjani
Bruteforcing HTTP Auth in Firefox with JavaScript - Stefan Esser
Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Versions 7.0.8 and Earlier of Adobe Reader and Acrobat - Adobe
Community Creators, Secure Your Code! Part II - Niklas Bivald
JavaScript-Based Injection Attacks - John Resig
JavaScript Hijacking Vulnerability Detected - Fortify Software
Javascript Based Encryption - Gareth Heyes
JavaScript/HTML Portscanning and HTTP Auth - Stefan Esser
JavaScript Scanning and expose_php=On - Stefan Esser
Malicious JavaScript: Yet Another Reason for Graceful Degradation - Roger Johansson
Securing Ajax - Scott Dietzen

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Statements

Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference:Statements - Mozilla Developer Center
JavaScript Statements - Peter-Paul Koch
JavaScript Statements - James Payne
Javascript Tutorial - Statements - tizag

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Strings

JavaScript Objects: Strings - James Payne
- JavaScript Objects: More on String Methods - James Payne
- JavaScript Objects: Finishing Strings - James Payne.
Parse a String Using JavaScript - Christopher Jason
Parsing Array Strings - David R. Adams
Strings - Peter-Paul Koch
String Operations- David R. Adams
Shortening Strings to a Fixed Length in JavaScript - Christian Heilmann

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Comprehensive Sites

comp.lang.javascript FAQ - Jim Ley
ECMAScript 4 Documentation - ecmascript.org
Doc JavaScript - webreference.com
DOM Scripting Task Force - Web Standadards Project
Gecko DOM Reference - mozilla.org
JavaScript Developer Center - Yahoo
JavaScript Tutorial - W3schools.com
Kryogenix - Stuart Langridge
Mozilla Developer Center: JavaScript - Mozilla
Quirksmode.org - Peter Paul-Koch
Unobtrusive JavaScript - Christian Heilmann

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Articles & Related Links

@media 2007
- @media Ajax 2007 By Peter-Paul Koch
- @media Ajax 2007 By Stuart Langridge
- @media Ajax - The Presentations - Robert Nyman
- This was @mediaAjax 2007 - Chris Heilmann
9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know - Ayman Hourieh
A Detailed Explanation: How to Create a Maintainable Dynamic Slide Show in JavaScript - Christian Heilmann
A Quick Idea: Javascript Version Controlling For Static HTML Documents - Chris Heilmann
A Short History of the Development of JavaScript - Brendan Eich
A Touch of Class - Skinable Javascript - Chris Heilmann
An Explorer Script With No Need for ID - Chris Heilmann
JavaScript 2 and the Open Web - Brendan Eich
Beware of id and name attribute mixups when using getElementById in Internet Explorer - Roger Johansson
Capturing Caps Lock - Stuart Langridge
Collapsible page elements with DOM - Chris Heilmann
Complex Dynamic Lists: Your Order Please - Christian Heilmann
Cross-Browser Scripting with importNode() - Anthony Holdener
Don't Buy the Pig in the Wig or 'Why Most JavaScript Tutorials Still Suck' - Christian Heilmann
Don't Serve JSON as text/html - Jim Ley
Don't Use Javascript to Hide Bad Markup - Stuart Colville
Dynamic Elements - Cloak and Dagger Web Design - Chris Heilmann
ECMAScript 4 Documentation
- What I Think About ES4 - Chris Wilson
- Open Letter to Chris Wilson - Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript
- New Browser War Brewing Over JavaScript? - Robert Scoble
ECMAScript Menu System - Gez Lemon
Element Attributes in JavaScript - Jonathan Snook
Email Spambot Buster - Dennis Lembree
Enhancing JavaScript's Built in Types - Simon Willison
Enhancing Structural Markup with JavaScript - Simon Willison
Excerpt: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns - Ross Harmes and Dustin Diaz
Five Quick JavaScript Tips - Andy Hume
Free Chapter from Douglas Crockford’s 'JavaScript: The Good Parts' - Eric Miraglia <
Generate a Table of Contents with the DOM - Stuart Langridge
getElementsByClassName Deluxe Edition - Stuart Colville
Getting Back to Web Basics - Jeff Atwood
Hide And Seek in The Head - Peter-Paul Koch
High-Performance JavaScript - Joseph Smarr
How JavaScript Timers Work - John Resig
How to Auto Include a Javascript File - Mark Kahn
How to Use the DOM for :hover - Mark Wubben
HTML and Dynamic HTML - Microsoft
IE 7
- IE 7 and JavaScript: What Needs to be Fixed? - Peter-Paul Koch
- IE7 JavaScript Improvements - Dean Edwards
IE 8
- IE8 Beta 1 - First Tests - Peter-Paul Koch
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Whitepapers, W3C's ARIA Support - Microsoft
- JavaScript in Internet Explorer 8 - John Resig
Important Facts About JavaScript and Related Technologies - Christian Wenz
Improve Your Page Performance With Lazy Loading - Jakob Heuser <
Inline JavaScript: What's the Problem? - David Lindquist
- Inline JavaScript: What's the Problem? (comments)
Insert in Place Without document.write - James Edwards
Introducing MBN DuoTone Headings - Jonathan Christopher
Is Your JavaScript Library Standards Compliant? - Kevin Yank New!
JaS Gallery - Robert Nyman
Javascript alert, prompt, confirm guide - webdevtips.com
JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default - Jeff Atwood
- Draconian? Or Precise? - Shelly Powers
JavaScript Books
JavaScript Cheat Sheet - Dave Child
Javascript Closures - Richard Cornford
JavaScript and 'Serious' Programmers - Peter-Paul Koch
Javascript for Hackers, part 2 - Gareth Heyes.
JavaScript: How Did We Get Here? - Steve Champeon
JavaScript Internationalisation - Matthew Somervil
JavaScript Image Gallery - Jeremy Keith
JavaScript Image Replacement - Christian Heilmann
- Why ALA's "JavaScript Image Replacement" Sucks - Peter-Paul Koch
JavaScript is the Worst Invention Ever - David Andersson
JavaScript is Not the Devil's Plaything - Cameron Adams
JavaScript Method Overloading - John Resig
Javascript Navigation - Cleaner, Not Meaner - Chris Heilmann
JavaScript Performance Stack - John Resig
JavaScript Shortcut Notations that Shouldn't Be Black Magic to the 'Average Developer' - Christian Heilmann
JavaScript: the Big Divide - Peter-Paul Koch
JavaScript Trends: Mixed Signals - Jacques Surveyor
JavaScript Triggers - Peter-Paul Koch
- JavaScript Triggers - wrapping it up - Peter-Paul Koch
JavaScript: Why You Don't Know More About It - Steve Champeon
jQuery Crash Course - Nathan Smith
Learning JavaScript - Dolphinling
Keeping JavaScript Dependencies At Bay - Christian Heilmann
Make All Your Tables Sortable - Stuart Langridge
Memory
- 3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks - Jack Slocum
- Avoiding Leaks in Mozilla JavaScript Code - David Baron
- DHTML Leaks Like a Sieve - Joel Webber
- Leak Free Javascript Closures - Laurens van den Oever
Names and IDs - Jeremy Keith
Onload Image fades Without Flash - Richard Rutter
On Modifying Prototypes of JavaScript Built-ins - David 'liorean' Andersson
Optimizing JavaScript for Download Speed - Andrew B. King
- Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed - Andrew B. King
Private JavaScript Variables - Jesse Skinner
Programming: JavaScript - Wiki Books
Roll Out Your Own JavaScript Interfaces - Dustin Diaz
S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System - Eric Meyer
Sample Chapter - Pro JavaScript Design Patterns by Ross Harmes and Dustin Diaz - Eric Miraglia
Script Smarter: Quality JavaScript from Scratch - James Edwards and Cameron Adams
Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today - Dustin Diaz
Shortening JavaScripts with Math - Christian Heilmann
Simple JavaScript Inheritance - John Resig
Simulating Attributes Selectors in IE6 - Sandra Clark
Six JavaScript Features We Do Not Need Any Longer - Chris Heilmann
Splintered Striper - Patrick H. Lauke
Tasty Text Trimmer - Drew McLellan
The Behaviour Layer: Using JavaScript for Good, Not Evil - Jeremy Keith
- At Media 2005: The behaviour layer by Jeremy Keith - Mike Davies
The Dangers of Frameworks - Jeremy Keith
Dangers of Remote Javascript - Nat Torkington
Take Control of Your Maps - Paul Smith
The History of JavaScript and Databases - Jacques Surveyor
The Irony of JavaScript's Success - Jacques Surveyer
The Behavior Layer - Peter-Paul Koch
Transcript of the Paris Web 2007 Workshop on Unobtrusive JavaScript - Chris Heilmann
Scripts in XHTML - Lachlan Hunt
The Perfect Pop-up - Ian Lloyd
- The Perfect Popup was Imperfect... - Ian Lloyd
The Prevalence of Slick JavaScript and Flash Effects - Christopher Schmitt
The Power of Javascript: Basic Types of Data - Michael Youssef
The Return of JavaScript - Molly E. Holzschlag
The Table Ruler - Christian Heilmann
Thinking lowsrc - How to Make Sites Appear to be Available a Lot Faster - Christian Heilmann
- Return of the HTTP Overhead Delay - This Time Without a Server Side Component - Christian Heilmann.
Use Javascript to Add Default Text to Input Fields - Jim Byrne
Unobtrusive Table Sort Script (revisited) - Brian McAllister
Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery - Simon Willison
Using a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut - Ian Lloyd
What is Greasemonkey? - Mark Pilgrim
Where to Include JavaScript Files in a Document - Robert Nyman
Why document.write() doesn't work in XML - Ian Hickson
Yahoo Theater - Julien Lecomte: 'High Performance Ajax Applications' - Eric Miraglia
Yahoo User Interface Theater: Douglas Crockford - "JavaScript: The Good Parts" - Eric Miraglia

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