JavaScript resources

References

• Browser compatibility - QuirksMode, Web Devout, When can I use....

• Cheat sheets, etc. - Canvas, jQuery API browser.

• JSON.

• mozilla developer center - AJAX, CSS, DOM, HTML, JS, XML, etc.

• SitePoint - CSS, HTML, JS, compatibility.

• Unicode - categories / index / search, scripts and symbols, UTF-8 tool.

• Validators - CSS, HTML / MathML / SVG / XML, Link Checker, JSLint.

• World Wide Web Consortium / W3C - HTML5, MathML, SVG, etc.

• w3schools - CSS, HTML, JS, SVG, XML, compatibility, etc.

Tutorials

• Canvas - B. Mill, Mozilla.

• CSS.

• HTML / XML.

• JavaScript - D. Crockford.

• SVG - Altsoft, J. Jenkov.

• VML.

Demos and examples (see Libraries, too)

• B. Joffe.

• Canvas Demos.

• Chrome Experiments.

• contentEditable demo.

• J. Seidelin's Textured 3D renderer.

• R. Kirov's Graph Editor.

• jQuery List.

Libraries

• CAKE - 2D scenegraphs.

• Canvas 3D / C3DL - Requires an extension, Firefox only.

• Explorer Canvas - Canvas for IE.

• flot - 2D plotting.

• JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - 2D.

• Jmol - 3D visualization, requires Java.

• jQuery - Set up, find, and modify attributes, CSS, DOM, effects, events, AJAX, etc.

• jQuery SVG - 2D plotting, scenes.

• jQuery UI - Themable widgets and effects.

• jsMath - Typeset mathematics.

• jsTree - Tree widget.

• JSXGraph - 2D interactive geometry, plotting, visualization.

• O3D - Requires a plug-in.

• Pre3d - Visualization.

• Processing.js - Interactive applications.

• Protovis - 2D.

• pyjamas - Python to JS compilation, AJAX, widgets.

• SVG-edit - Inkscape-lite.

• svgweb - SVG natively or via Flash.

Developer tools

• Firefox - FireBug and its extensions, Web Developer.

• IE - Developer Tools - Built-in.

• Opera - DragonFly - Built-in.

• WebKit (Chrome, Safari, etc.) - Web Inspector - Built-in.

Benchmarks and tests

• Acid3 Test.

• Google's V8 Suite.

• Mozilla's Dromaeo.

• WebKit's SunSpider.