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As many, I had considered JavaScript an inferior language, to be learnt on the cheap (with the idea of I will look at it when I need something). This approach has 2 problems:

• The first is that not knowing the possibilites (and the limits) of a language does not allow you to even conceive what you need.
• The second is the rapid evolution of the client-side: the transition from the Legacy Dom to the W3c Dom, the irruption of Css in the scene, and finally the possibility of scripting Http (ie, Ajax). There is no learning on the cheap, if you really want to understand things.

In short: I finally dived into the 1,000 pages book that I had been trying to avoid, the one from D.Flanagan (whose Aug 2006 edition also has a concise but excellent introduction to Ajax). The book is one of the best computer science books I read; it illuminated the entire field for me. While reading the book, I started to develop notes and examples for my own documentation, that I start publishing here.

I also used the site to deliver (separate from the tutorials) assignments of a Javascript course that I completed in Dec 2006, where I used several of the techniques presented by Flanagan.