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Useful Links

Javascript 1.5 Reference The official Javascript 1.5 reference.
Javascript 1.3 Reference The official Javascript 1.3 Reference.
Gecko DOM Reference Reference guide for Mozilla/Gecko DOM.
MSDN JScript Language Reference.
Unofficial ECMAScript Reference. This is a simplified version of the reference.
The Dev Guru JavaScript Reference is very good, it covers all the bases and includes sample code.

W3 Schools JS Tutorial A good Javascript tutorial with lots of topics. They also have tutorials for lots of other web related stuff.
JavaScript Tutorial.
JavaScript 1.5 Guide The official Core JavaScript guide by the makers of JavaScript.
MSDN JScript User Guide.

Safari Developer FAQ.
json.org Javascript Object Notation.
IRT.org’s massive Javascript FAQ
A MSDN article on JavaScript Performance Tuning.
An article on Javascript performance optimization.
Microsoft Script Debugger Should be last link at bottom of page. If you’re using Mozilla it comes with a Javascript debugger built in.
Genius Bug Lots of javascript references.
About.com Javascript references and tutorials.
IBM Guide to Migrating from IE to Mozilla. A useful reference not only for migrating, but for finding out what the mozilla equivalent of IE specific methods/properties are.
A link the W3 HTML standard section that explains how the name and id attribute can only contain certain characters An important lesson for all of you PHP coders out there putting square braces into names and ids.

DomAPI An extensive and very powerful Javascript API that does all the hard work for you. Free for personal use, and very reasonable prices for commercial use.
CSS 2 Reference You don’t need anything besides this.
Visibone Color Guide Very good color guide, just click on the colors and see.
RegexLib.com A fantastic resource for all regular expressions great and small.
html-channel, our sister channel on the undernet.
Useful list of valid DTDs
Javascript O Lait A LGPL Javascript Library of modules and components.
A List Apart is a great site for learning tricks about DHTML. Plenty of articles and sample code for everything from menus to to content layout.
Brainjar.com contains a popular DHTML hiarchical menu and several other useful bits of code.
A list of 10 ways to speed up the download time of your web pages.
Quirskmode a great site for listing all the quirks of various browsers, and how to deal with them.
Referencing Forms and Form Controls. Provide detail form and elements related information.

IE Memory Leak Detector (drip)
HTTP Debugger (fiddler)
IE Developer Toolbar
JS Tidy Stick in a bunch of messy Java Script code and it will automagically tidy it up.
JavaScript Lint checks all your JavaScript source code for common mistakes.

Mozilla CSS extensions (NOTE: it’s only wrong when Microsoft invents proprietary crap)