Videos tagged with ecmascript

Douglas Crockford keynoted the 2008 Frontend Engineering Summit at Yahoo!. In this talk, he proposes that the standards processes have stagnated, leaving us with an inadequate platform and no orderly mechanism for improving it. The solution, he suggests, is a disorderly mechanism: another browser war. In a new browser war, the web engineering community will face short-term pain but the Web's la...

In this talk from YUIConf 2009, Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford discusses the recent ECMA5 development process and efforts to improve the language in the future.

In this keynote talk from YUIConf 2009, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, talks about the struggle over the ES4 proposal and how it resulted in a specific set of proposals for ES5.

In this keynote talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford drops some science to explain why code style is important in programming -- particularly in JavaScript -- and how tools like JSLint can help.

In Level 7 of the Crockford on JavaScript series, Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford outlines the changes made to the language in the 5th edition of the ECMAScript standard.

Mozilla Labs engineer and TC39 representative Dave Herman joined us at YUIConf 2011 to give this keynote talk on the future of JavaScript, covering many of the new features currently under consideration for ES6, the next edition of the ECMAScript standard.

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer and former jQuery user Derek Gathright explains why you should consider using YUI to build your web apps. In particular, he stresses how YUI is designed to serve as an extensible set of building blocks (like Legos) and not just a collection of ready-to-use components (like pre-molded plastic toy cars).

Today's JavaScript is a decent language for writing small scale scripts. But even for beginners, it has too many minefields between what beginners learn and what they need to know. And JavaScript is now increasingly used for serious software engineering projects – straining to carry a load it was not designed for. After 10 years, the world of JavaScript standards is moving again. The next...