Intended Audience

This video lecture is intended for web developers working with JavaScript and HTML mainly. You should be familiar with basic DOM and JavaScript.

Overview

Douglas Crockfrod speaks about the DOM, how to use JavaScript as programming language to interact with the DOM and to modify the tree of objects with it. You can create and remove elements, add and remove event handlers to them. Crockford gives a valuable advices how to optimize the interaction with the page, how to improve the event listeners to be useful and explains the main methods applied by the browsers. A good advice in this lecture is to intend to use a js library if possible, cause there all differences between browsers, methods and so on are solved. Such a library is the Yahoo!’s YUI.

About the Author

Douglas Crockford is a JavaScript architect in Yahoo!. See more on wikipedia.

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1. Douglas Crockford Theory of the DOM (part 1)
2. Douglas Crockford – Theory of the DOM (part 3)
3. Douglas Crockford – The JavaScript Progamming Language (part 2)
4. Douglas Crockford – The JavaScript Programming Language (part 3)
5. Douglas Crockford – The JavaScript Programming Language (part 4)