Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites?

here are some links:<p><a href="http://www.crockford.com/javascript/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crockford.com/javascript/</a> <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/so-you-want-to-write-javascript-for-a-living" rel="nofollow">http://ajaxian.com/archives/so-you-want-to-write-javascript-...</a><p>video lectures: <a href="http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2007/05/programming-video-education-lectures.html?search=programming" rel="nofollow">http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2007/05/programming-vi...</a> <a href="http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-javascript-programming-language-through-video-lectures/" rel="nofollow">http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-javascript-programming...</a><p>cheat sheets: <a href="http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/06/27/dom-javascript-cheat-sheet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/06/27/dom-javascript-cheat-s...</a> <a href="http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/95/javascriptajax-cheat-sheets/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/95/javascriptajax-cheat-shee...</a><p>combined resources: <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/lets-compile-a-list-of-ajax-dom-and-js-related-resources" rel="nofollow">http://ajaxian.com/archives/lets-compile-a-list-of-ajax-dom-...</a> <a href="http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/quality-ajax-resources-tutorials-082107/" rel="nofollow">http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/quality-ajax-resou...</a> <a href="http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/weblog/comments/learning_ajax_amp_javascript_by_example_tutorials_source_code_and_documenta/" rel="nofollow">http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/weblog/comments/learning...</a> <a href="http://fresherswisdom.wisdomplug.com/free-tutorials-collection/free-javascript-tutorials.html" rel="nofollow">http://fresherswisdom.wisdomplug.com/free-tutorials-collecti...</a> <a href="http://www.jasonbartholme.com/70-javascript-resources-for-every-web-developer/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jasonbartholme.com/70-javascript-resources-for-ev...</a><p>development tools: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-jstools/?S_CMP=GR&#38;S_TACT=105AGX59&#38;ca=dgr-twkoJSHTMLAjaxTools" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-jstools/?S_...</a>

Basics of everything you need:<p><a href="http://www.hunlock.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hunlock.com/</a><p>Interactive tutorial:<p><a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/" rel="nofollow">http://eloquentjavascript.net/</a><p>Print version:<p><a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/print.html" rel="nofollow">http://eloquentjavascript.net/print.html</a>

browser bugs:<p><a href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/</a><p>Danny goodman's quickref/cheat:<p><a href="http://www.dannyg.com/dl/JSB6RefBooklet.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dannyg.com/dl/JSB6RefBooklet.pdf</a><p>mozilla's JS 1.5 ref<p><a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide" rel="nofollow">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Gui...</a><p>jscript / IE deviation from ES 3<p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2007/10/29/ecmascript-3-and-beyond.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2007/10/29/ecmascript-...</a><p>browser testing<p><a href="http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200702/browser_testing_css_and_javascript/" rel="nofollow">http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200702/browser_testing...</a><p>browser market share<p><a href="http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php</a> <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers</a> <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/will-memory-leaks-matter-in-2009/" rel="nofollow">http://ejohn.org/blog/will-memory-leaks-matter-in-2009/</a>

My reference for this kind of stuff is <a href="http://w3schools.com" rel="nofollow">http://w3schools.com</a> , a bit light on examples, but a good reference if you just need to know the syntax.

I would start with the Rhino book<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flanagan/dp/0596101996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1214480859&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...</a>

It is embarrassing to have to admit that I'm only halfway through a book as compact as <i>JavaScript: The Good Parts</i>. But so far it is a very good book.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1214513018&#38;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...</a>

<a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript" rel="nofollow">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript</a> <a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...</a>

There's a veritable wealth of info over at <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://developer.yahoo.com/</a><p>The Web Developers Handbook is also pretty useful <a href="http://www.alvit.de/handbook/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.alvit.de/handbook/index.php</a>

read John Resig's blog ejohn.org, he's also the creator of JQuery.

www.gotapi.com

Wow! Thanks!!

QuirksMode offers a lot of help, especially on tricky cross browser issues. <a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html</a>