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Crockford on JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2014 to 2019.
  • Presented by Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Douglas Crockford explains the history and evolution of the Document Object Model and the rise of Ajax in web development.

Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford continues his lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with an analysis of the Document Object Model (DOM) and an exploration of Ajax.

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What people say. Recommended for its historical perspective on Internet Explorer 6 and the evolution of web browsers.

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On “if (osName.startswith("windows 9"))”

> "For many years Internet Explorer 6 was the very best web browser on the planet. And continued to be the best web browser the world had ever seen for many years. Everyone thinks IE6 is the worst thing anyone has ever seen. It was the best. It was absolutely the best. You should have seen Netscape 4, man that was a piece of work. IE survived, Netscape didn't, for good reasons. Microsoft deserved to have won that battle. But now we're stuck with it." - Douglas Crockford - JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax (YouTube) - 3/31/2010 Watch that video, where he explains the IE6 problem and how IE6 must die. And your memory is failing you. Netscape **invented** the box model. An…
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On “Web Browser Market Share (1996-2019)”

How many people are surprised by this statement: > "For many years Internet Explorer 6 was the very best web browser on the planet. And continued to be the best web browser the world had ever seen for many years. > Everyone thinks IE6 is the worst thing anyone has ever seen. It was the best. It was absolutely the best. You should have seen Netscape 4, man that was a piece of work. IE survived, Netscape didn't, for good reasons. Microsoft deserved to have won that battle. But now we're stuck with it." - Douglas Crockford JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax 3/31/2010 link to this video
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On “Why every user agent string start with "Mozilla"”

And in case you think IE sucked: > For many years Internet Explorer 6 was the very best web browser on the planet. And continued to be the best web browser the world had ever seen for many years. Everyone thinks IE6 is the worst thing anyone has ever seen. It was the best. It was absolutely the best. You should have seen Netscape 4, man that was a piece of work. IE survived, Netscape didn't, for good reasons. Microsoft deserved to have won that battle. But now we're stuck with it. Douglas Crockford JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax link to this video 3/31/2010
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