Google Tech Talk May 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Mark Miller, Waldemar Horwat, and Mike Samuel. Slides for this talk are available from google-caja.googlecode.com Today's JavaScript is a decent language for writing small scale scripts. But even for beginners, it has too many minefields between...
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.
Google Tech Talk April 20, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Tom Van Cutsem. We discuss two proposed language features for inclusion in ECMAScript-Harmony. The first, dynamic proxies, enables Javascript programmers to create proxy objects that can intercept property access, assignment, enumeration, etc....
In this presentation, David Herman from Mozilla will talk about some of the new features that Ecma TC39 (the comittee in charge of standardizing JavaScript) has planned for the future of JavaScript. David's talk will focus around three themes: - Fixes: righting past wrongs - Expressiveness: suppo...
In this talk from HTML5 Dev Conf, David Herman of Mozilla is going to talk about what the future of JavaScript looks like. Some of the main points David will hit include: - Binary File and network I/O - Private Names - Callbacks - Interruptible functions - Modules - Expressiveness
