Smith, Thanks On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Garrett Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 12/15/10, Emeka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Garret, > > > > This is a one-to-many communications medium. A reply to the group is a > reply to the group. > > See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style > > > I have already done programming in other languages.... Clojure and other > > scripting languages(extensively). However, I have not been able to > achieve > > same success with Javascript. > > I intend to carry out some webapps programming and I think I need to pick > up > > enough Javascript skill in order to achieve something reasonable. > > > I do not know what you mean by "reasonable" here. > > Most code on the web is total crap. Ironically, this stuff is not that > hard. The success limiting factors (the failed parts), in order, are > HTML, CSS, and the W3C DOM, followed by bad usability/accessibility, > misunderstanding about developing for dynamic environment (various > browsers), followed by (ironically) the language itself (ECMAScript). > > A misunderstanding that has become more prevalent is the inability to > distinguish native ES methods and objects from host objects from user > defined methods from libraries (e.g. the belief that `$` is something > that is provided by the environment or that jQuery is javascript (see > stackoverflow for details)). > > The browsers today are remarkably consistent with each other and so > knowing about broswer anomalies is really not as important these days > (despite library blog FUD). Rewind 10 years, where a cross browser > image swap required recursive DFS "layer crawler", to get reliable > results in NS4. Nowadays, people balk at `getElementById` and want to > use a "$". > > I have no idea what your success limiting factor is because you've > asked such an open ended question. > > You can learn js by writing js, RTFM (all those w3c specs I mentioned > plus MSDN), testing, and getting code reviews. Post a real example of > something that you wanted feedback on, cleaned up and validated and > you may get some (hopefully good) feedback. > > [snip others] > -- > Garrett > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<jsmentors%[email protected]> > -- *Satajanus Nig. Ltd * -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
