“JavaScript in Internet Explorer 8” and other links…
John Resig: “In all I'm positive about this release, even with all the ups-and-downs. Seeing features like querySelector, ARIA, and postMessage helps to warm my frosty, bitter, heart. While there's still some major faux-paus in this release (no new JS langauge features?, no W3C events?, no CSS3 selectors?) I think we can, at least, be excited to see what happens in the next beta. …If nothing else the Internet Explorer team has done a great job of tackling many of the expectations of the development community - if they continue this trend I don't think anyone will be left disappointed.” What has me confused right about now is that I have yet to find the John Resig writ about how many jQuery samples break just like Yahoo! YUI in IE8—certainly all this breaking cannot be happening only for me. Update: It turns out that I had Disable > Script enabled on my IE8 Toolbar. This is actually quite a relief… I am ready join the rest of the world now…
“Site Compatibility and IE8”
IEBlog: “IE8 now has a native JSON object, compliant with the JSON support described in the ES3.1 Proposal Working Draft. Some pages detect the native JSON object, then use it in a non-standard way. This typically results in a script error and breaks handling of AJAX requests.” This is great!
“IE exposes new properties for certain AJAX features such as Cross Document Messaging (XDM), even in Compatibility View. Adding custom properties to the Event object can conflict with these new properties, such as "source".” I’m almost sure this is contributing to IE8 breaking YUI and jQuery.
“What are the most likely causes of Javascript errors in IE8?”
Stack Overflow: “However, if like the majority, you are running with a doctype set, and thus in IE8 Standards mode, the following changes have occurred…” Most serious web developers have the doctype set…
“Use Asp .Net MVC Ajax Helpers with jQuery!”
Martin From: “I have rewritten the original Microsoft Javascript files that support the Ajax features provided by the Ajax helper found in the MVC framework.” This article might be redundant with the CodeProject.com article, “Using jQuery for AJAX in ASP.NET”…
“Podcast: Microsoft on ECMAScript, IE 8”
John Resig: “Dion Almaer just posted the fourth episode of the Open Web Podcast in which we sat down with Allen Wirfs-Brock and Pratap lakshman and discussed ECMAScript and Internet Explorer 8. …We were also led into discussing the disconnect between the ECMA standard and the W3C standard, primarily the DOM and JavaScript. Pratap was a little disturbed that the ECMAScript spec only had a few words on DOM, and some banter occurred around the role of JavaScript as being the One True Open Web language, or whether there is a place for the polyglots.”
“John Peloquin’s Multi-layer Calendar”
Yahoo! User Interface Blog: “YUI contributor (and author of the Interval Selection Calendar example) John Peloquin of W. Hardy Interactive has released another excellent option for Calendar implementers: a layered navigation path for selecting years and months. The layered approach provides an alternative to the built-in navigator interface that ships with Calendar.”
“JSINQ: LINQ style access for JavaScript objects”
ajaxian.com: “With JSINQ, you can write SQL-like queries (or LINQ-like if you will) against arrays, DOM node lists or your own enumerable types. It's a complete implementation of LINQ in that it has the complete set of LINQ extension methods and also comes with a query compiler that translates LINQ queries to JavaScript code.”