In the first course in computer science we (students) received the following words of wisdom from the lecturer: Above anything avoid JavaScript. Pure JavaScript A few years later I started working as a programmer (late 2005) the need to do certain small things arose; impossible without the use of JavaScript. One of my coworkers showed me how to add some bits of extra functionality that the users needed (easier user interface). Later on there was a need for drag and drop in the browser. I implemented [...]

A colleague told me about another initiative for graphics on the web. It turns out that John Resig has written a library for this.

There are some pitfalls for using javascript. Intellisense being one of them. Not to worry, a great starting point would be ScottGu’s blogg post about general javascript intellisense as well as his post about jquery intellisense. The nice thing is that you can get the yellow documentation hover for your own scripts as can be seen in Scotts first post.

There are many problems with the hard coded nature of how a membership provider operate. Once your site depends on a membership provider it's not always easy to switch into using some different method of membership. I mean, it's extremely frustrating telling people that you can't do certain kind of functionality. Unfortunately I don't know of any open source project that satisfies this kind of requirement.

I'm using a lot of jquery these days. One thing that troubled while trying to hunt down a wierd bug was how to find the event listeners for an element. You can read about it here: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/debug-jquery-events-with-listhandlers/ Mentioned in : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/570960/how-to-debug-javascript-jquery-event-bindings-with-firebug-or-similar-tool/571035 As mentioned by http://mankzblog.wordpress.com/ However, it does not list all of the handlers. There is perhaps[...]