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The Dom is a Mess – Lecture by John Resig

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.”

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Discussion 22 Comments

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

  2. John Resig says:

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

  3. Jeffrey Way says:
    Author

    Hey John. It’s my pleasure.

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

  4. Jesse says:

    Great reference for all developers! Thanks for this.

  5. Wassim says:

    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.

  6. Devin says:

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

  7. Jeffrey Way says:
    Author

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

  8. Brenelz says:

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

    Great lesson!

  9. JQuery Fanboy says:

    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.

  10. This is very useful. Thanks for posting it here.

  11. Mason Sklut says:

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

  12. Sebastian says:

    Thank you for this! Very informative : )

  13. Shuuun says:

    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! !

  14. ThaClown says:

    Thanks alot John, I love jQuery!

  15. jQuery made me love javascript where I once hated it.

  16. Jeremy says:

    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.

  17. Mike says:

    Great vid, very interesting.

  18. Ethan says:

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

  19. Albedo says:

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

  20. Tom says:

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

  21. craig says:

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

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