On layout and web performance by Kelly Norton
This is handy: a look at which DOM properties and methods cause layout thrashing (reflows).
Tags: dom_scripting
DOM Enlightenment
This looks great! It’s a CC-licensed book by Cody Lindley (whose work I’ve admired for many years) aimed at teaching DOM Scripting for modern browsers. You can read the whole thing online or wait for the paper version from O’Reilly.
If all your JavaScript currently consists of writing jQuery plugins, I highly recommend you read this.
Vanilla JavaScript FTW
I’ve found myself using jQuery less and less recently. Partly to avoid the extra download and file size but also—as shown here—when it comes to DOM manipulation, there’s a lot you can do straight out of the box.
AJAX Libraries API - Google Code
Google is now hosting all the major JavaScript libraries. The caching benefits should be good news for your users.
Google Doctype - Google Code
This looks like it could be a very valuable resource indeed: a user-contributed and edited reference for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery
Simon's slides and demos from his half-day workshop at XTech.
Dear JavaScript Library Developers… - Wait till I come!
Christian's wish list for JavaScript libraries.
Cheat Sheets for the YUI Utilities » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
If you use the Yahoo JavaScript libraries a lot, these cheat sheets (inspired by those of fellow Brightonian, Dave Childs) should come in very handy.
Respect the DOM t-shirt
Respect the DOM t-shirt
The Strange Zen Of JavaScript: Ajaxed out
A nice round-up of the Ajax summit.