JavaScript lessons

Lessons on using JavaSript. These are categorized as lessons, rather than tutorials, as they cover specific tasks or subject areas.

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  • Alistapart.com - Behavioral separation

    Unobtrusive JavaScript - Begin with your content, give it structure with semantically descriptive markup, apply a presentation layer using CSS, and finally, add a behavior layer with DOM Scripting.

  • Sitepoint.com - Unobtrusive javascript

    A web page's behavior should remain separate from its structure & a page should be functional without any scripting, rather being dependent on it.

  • 24ways.org - Responsible JavaScript

    A look at some more responsible approaches to writing scripts that are independent of the page content and are safely portable between different applications. Covers the way event handlers are assigned and functions declared.

  • Dustindiaz.com - JavaScript no-nos

    An article is for beginners. Some of the most common things you shouldn’t be doing in JavaScript.

  • Evolt.org - Links & JavaScript

    Links and JavaScript living together in harmony. How to properly execute some JavaScript from a link. Another explanation: Phazm.com - Unobtrusive javascript - initiate a script as soon as it can use the DOM, then hook into the elements to add JavaScript.

  • 24ways.org - JavaScript dependencies

    Starting with a global object. Adding the components. Verifying that components have been loaded. Telling the implementers when components are available. Extending with other components

  • Dev.opera.com - Efficient javascript/

    Simple changes that can be made to improve the performance of your Web applications. Areas covered will be ECMAScript - the core language used by JavaScript, DOM, and document loading.

  • Sitepoint.com- Object oriented programming

    JavaScript's object-based (or prototype-based) language. Objects help you better understand how JavaScript works, & in large scripts, you can create self-contained JavaScript objects, rather than procedural code. This also allows you to reuse code more often.

  • Digital-web.com - Objectifying JavaScript

    Moving from creating variables and then encapsulating any functionality to reuse into a function towards learning object-oriented programming in JavaScript.

  • Thinkvitamin.com - maintainable javascript

    An eight step plan to make your scripts easier for the maintainer by Christian Heilmann.

  • Wait-till-i.com - Shortcut notations

    JavaScript coding to make your scripts cleaner, smaller and easier.

  • Reindel.com - Mastering JavaScript

    Mastering JavaScript — concept and resource guide. Access Control, Accessible JavaScript, Closures, Classical OOP, Concepts in AJAX, Memory Leaks, Namespaces and Self-invoking Functions, JSON and Object Literal Notation & Security.

  • Icant.co.uk - 7 rules of unobtrusive javascript/

    Assumptions, HTML Hooks & Relationships, Traversing the DOM, Understand browsers and users, Event handling to initiate change, Namespacing, scope and patterns, + Making maintenance easier.

  • Quirksmode.org - Cookies

    A delicious recipie for the tastiest cookies.

  • Quirksmode.org - Boolean Logic

    A overview on the basics of boolean logic. But as Dr Spok said, logic is only the beginning of wisom.

  • Quirksmode.org - Object detection

    Certain features of JavaScript do not work in certain browsers. If you want to use an advanced bit of script, you first have to check whether a browser supports the objects you want to use. This page explains how to do it.

  • Sergiopereira.com - Somewhat advanced JavaScript

    A brief introduction to Object oriented programming in JavaScript - class libraries, object models, hierarchies, patterns.

  • Thinkvitamin.com - Fast JavaScript

    A tutorial on making content as small and fast to download as possible, while avoiding unnecessarily refetching of unmodified resources.