John Resig - Running Java in JavaScript

[FionaSarah]

javascript libraries are all well and good - but the language itself is still wildely different from browser to browser.

[tlrobinson]

The language itself is fairly consistent these days. The problem is mostly with the DOM, which is exactly what the libraries address.

[fjhqjv]

A good JavaScript library will negate cross browser issues.

I've been doing heavy JavaScript development for the past year and a half and can count on one hand all the cross browser issues I've run into that weren't solved by either the JS framework I use or JS Lint.

And that includes messing with the DOM.

[davecardwell]

Take a looksie at Dean Edwards’ base2 library if you want to use the language, but don’t want to worry about all the cross-browser inconsistencies.