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September 15, 2014 |
Design Vs Dev
Welcome to Design Vs Dev, a podcast about web development from the different perspectives of designers and developers. In our third episode, Drew and Micah discuss JavaScript and its secret identity, ECMAScript. There are some changes on the horizon.
Topics Covered
- What is a ECMAScript? How is it related to JavaScript?
- A very, very light history of JavaScript and how we got where we are today.
- How are Java and JavaScript related?
- How does this relate to JQuery?
- Does any of this really matter to your average developer/designer?
References
- ECMAScript Overview (Wikipedia)
- Underscore JS – A great JavaScript tool for working with Arrays.
- What’s new in ES6 – Very condensed version of the features coming in ES6.
- Browser support for ES5 – Make sure to click the “show obsolete browsers” checkbox.
- Browser support for ES6
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