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JavaScript libraries like Prototype, Scriptaculous, YUI and Dojo are making a huge impact on the field of DOM Scripting. As AJAX matures and the complexity of the script to support it increases it becomes much less feasible to re-invent the wheel and produce code from scratch for every project.

At the @media 2006 conference in London, a panel of DOM Scripting experts (Cameron Adams, Peter-Paul Koch, Dan Webb, Stuart Langridge and Simon Willison) discuss the whys and what-fors of JavaScript libraries, the advantages, the disadvantages.

Author and developer Aaron Gustafson and Sarah Nelson of Adaptive Path gave a talk at @SXSW07 about how JavaScript can be used to ruin and improve the user experience of a website. Here are the slides (.pdf) that were used during the presentation.

Christian Heilmann author of Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax, member of the DOM Scripting Task Force and well-known blogger of many JavaScript articles gave a talk on Maintainable JavaScript.

Here is the web post with code examples for his presentation.

Web developer and author of DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM, Stuart Langridge discussed the resurgence of JavaScript and how, combined with XML, Ajax is allowing developers to create a new breed of rich Internet applications at dConstruct05 in Brighton, UK.

Jesse James Garret is a user experience expert and co-founder of adaptive path coined the phrase "Ajax", which gave a name to the implementation of exisiting technologies using JavaScript. In this interview he talks about how he came up with the name, his view of what Ajax is, usability issues and more.