Dean Edwards takes Mozilla's newly introduced forEach method, and implements it for non-Mozilla browsers, for enumerating over objects and arrays.
Speeding up object detection by doing the detection once. Dean Edwards demonstrates a quick improvement using the ubiquitous addEvent function.
Dean Edwards counters Dojo's Alex Russell's hideous hacks with two standards friendly approaches. Looking at the The DOM Content loaded problem and the sluggishness of walking a DOM Tree, Dean talks about speed improvements, including the use of XPaths.
Dean Edwards presents his improvement to Scott Andrews' famous addEvent()
functions. Solving the cross-browser this
reference differences, and passing event
objects correctly.
An elegant mechanism for extending and overriding JavaScript classes in an object oriented fashion. It eases the pain of object oriented JavaScript.
Dean Edwards gets to grips with the window.onload
problem - where it only gets fired once the document and its associated styles and images are loading. The ideal solution is one that that detects when the document is available as a DOM.
IE7 is a JavaScript library to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.
cssQuery() is a powerful cross-browser JavaScript function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors. All CSS1 and CSS2 selectors are allowed plus quite a few CSS3 selectors.
Promoting responsible use of JavaScript with web standards, their mission is to bring scripting up to parity with XHTML and CSS as a useful and necessary tool for building accessible, user-centric, standards-based web sites.
Some famous names in JavaScripting are involved, including Peter-Paul Koch and Dean Edwards (of IE7 fame).