soxiam

“I’m phenomenally bored with traditional Ajax/DHTML books, large parts of mine included. There’s no great mystery concerning the DOM API or how to do a simple XMLHttpRequest - and I hardly think there needs to be considerable literature dedicated to it. However, no one talks about how incredibly hard it is to get those things working in a bullet-proof cross browser manner. Probably the best resource we’ve had was Quirksmode - but that only told you what was broken - but not even necessarily how it was broken and definitely not how to fix it. There needs to be volumes written on how to fix real-world JavaScript bugs, constantly being updated to handle the changing browser landscape.”