Sensei Says (dark ages, to dojos, to disciplines) Javascript used to be a dark and ancient art, looked down upon by many web developers as a dishonorable – even malicious – ‘copy and paste’ language. Macromedia’s Shockwave – which later became Macromedia Flash, which even later became Adobe Flash – pushed audio, video, and interactive motion graphics onto the web in a cross-browser compatible format that all but decimated the need and appeal for Javascript. What little Javascript community there was began to seriously dwindle and die out. And then the frameworks came to rise: Dojo, Yahoo! UI Library, Google Web Toolkit, jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, and many more. With these [...] read more
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Native Javascript Ninjutsu: Document object methods & properties
04
Oct
2010
posted by Dylan in Category: Code Talk