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The Dom is a Mess – Lecture by John Resig

Jeffrey Way on Feb 2nd 2009 with 22 comments

“John Resig of the Mozilla Corporation, and the creator of the popular jQuery library, talks about the challenges of DOM/JavaScript programming, and his preferred strategies for meeting those challenges.”


John Resig: "The DOM Is a Mess" @ Yahoo! Video
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Discussion 22 Comments

  1. Justin Scheetz says:
    February 2, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Very interesting video, really opens up the eyes on certain issues.

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  2. John Resig says:
    February 2, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Thanks for posting this, I appreciate it! I’ve also uploaded the slides over here: http://ejohn.org/blog/the-dom-is-a-mess/

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  3. Jeffrey Way says:
    February 2, 2009 at 2:46 pm
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    Hey John. It’s my pleasure.

    I’ve updated the post so that it links to the slides as well. :)

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  4. Jesse says:
    February 2, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Great reference for all developers! Thanks for this.

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  5. Wassim says:
    February 2, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Hey John, I have THE solution to all actual Javascript/DOM challenges: Switch back to NCSA’s Mosaic web browser ;-)

    Respect to you John :-)

    Very nice post Jeff.

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  6. Devin says:
    February 2, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    Wow I can’t believe the developer is actually here.Nice :)

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  7. Jeffrey Way says:
    February 2, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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    Not me. :) I only posted it. John did the work.

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  8. Brenelz says:
    February 2, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Nice… John is one of the greatest programmer ever… forsure in JavaScript!!

    Great lesson!

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  9. JQuery Fanboy says:
    February 2, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    QUOTE from Jeffrey::: Not me. :) I only posted it. John did the work.

    I think he means how John commented here.

    Thanks for posting this though.

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  10. Joefrey Mahusay says:
    February 2, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    This is very useful. Thanks for posting it here.

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  11. Mason Sklut says:
    February 2, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    Thanks to John we have jQuery, I could not imagine the web development process without it. Sure wouldn’t be as easy.

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  12. Sebastian says:
    February 2, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Thank you for this! Very informative : )

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  13. Memiux says:
    February 2, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Thanks

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  14. Shuuun says:
    February 3, 2009 at 2:05 am

    make luuuv ^^

    how old is this guy ? =D good job anyway! If you are in this age you look like, then you are a genius and i think for your future, all doors are open for you! !

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  15. ThaClown says:
    February 3, 2009 at 2:18 am

    Thanks alot John, I love jQuery!

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  16. Kevin Quillen says:
    February 3, 2009 at 8:41 am

    jQuery made me love javascript where I once hated it.

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  17. Jeremy says:
    February 3, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Very nice video.

    I thought the chart covering different frameworks and their number of global variables was interesting… It shows the different approaches they have within their libraries.

    I’m not sure the reasoning behind Microsoft Ajax framework, but I know Mootools and Prototype believe strongly in prototyping native javascript elements to extend their functionality. I believe this typically will give better speed results for larger tasks, but makes them not play so well in “uncontrolled foreign environments.”

    Cool to hear jQuery has tried to ensure its framework can coincide peacefully with others.

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  18. Mike says:
    February 3, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Great vid, very interesting.

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  19. Ethan says:
    February 3, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Took a while for it to load, but, it ended up nicely! Thanks John!

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  20. Albedo says:
    February 4, 2009 at 6:23 am

    Great information. He needs to take a class on public speaking.

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  21. Tom says:
    February 7, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    Interesting lecture, pretty cool that it is from the creator of the jQuery Library.

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  22. craig says:
    June 8, 2009 at 4:30 am

    amazing work you’ve put in jquery, thank you very much

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