• Uses & contexts
  • Web pages
  • User interface (Mozilla)
  • ActionScript (Adobe Flash)
  • Server-Side JavaScript
  • Shell (JScript in Windows)
• Document Object Model
  • Events
  • Modifications
• Functions
  • First class objects
  • Higher order functions
  • Anonymous functions (lambdas)
  • Closures
  • Functional programming
  • Constructors ("classes")
  • Methods
  • Modules
• Objects
  • Dynamic properties and methods
  • Prototypal inheritance (no classes--objects inherit from objects)|
  • Object literal notation (JSON)
  • Objects from parts (composition)
  • Loose typing (no casting or deep hierarchies)
  • Namespaces
• Frameworks & libraries
  • jQuery
    • is a monad
  • Prototype
• Standards & best practices
  • ECMAScript
    • ECMAScript 3
      • One HTML file
      • Several HTML files
    • ECMAScript 4 (dropped)
    • ECMAScript 5 (approved)
      • according to John Resig
      • according to Brendan Eich
      • according to Google
    • ECMAScript Harmony
      • A proposal for the version after ECMAScript 5
      • Brendan Eich on Harmony (video)
      • Douglas Crockford on Harmony (video)
  • W3C DOM
    • Core
      • Level 1
      • Level 2
      • Level 3
    • HTML
      • Level 1
      • Level 2
  • W3C XMLHttpRequest
  • Gurus
    • Douglas Crockford
    • John Resig
• Official documentation & guides
  • Mozilla
    • Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference
    • Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide
    • Gecko DOM Reference
  • Microsoft
    • JScript Language Reference
    • JScript User's Guide
    • HTML and DHTML Reference
      • DHTML Object Model? Lol.
• Third-party resources (good, bad, and ugly?)
  • JavaScript Kit
  • comp.lang.javascript FAQ (January 2, 2010)
  • All FAQ topics
  • FAQ Notes
  • YUI Theater
  • YUI blog
  • YUI Library
  • JSM
  • JavaScript Wiki
• Tools
  • Browser addons
    • Firebug (Firefox)
    • Firebug Lite (all)
    • Inline Code Finder (Firefox, Chrome)
  • JSLint
  • JSMin
• Global variables (yuck!)