JavaScript on .NET Rocks

Kent Alstad has some keen insights into Javascript on .NET Rocks.

• Field Stories - event handlers
• Understanding the DOM; Parsing the DOM
• Minification, Compression, Beautification and Obfuscation
• Tools for splitting up the Javascript code like Closure from Google
• Pre-publish bug locating
• Optimization - waiting for the DOM to load (main bottleneck in Javascript)
• HTML5 - Websockets, Canvas and Videos
• MVC paradigm for Javascript has the Viewer on the browser
• Less on server, more on client
• Tricks - if you can scroll, the DOM is ready
• jQuery - build on the shoulder of giants
• Great distribution system and language of the browser