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JavaScript.

About JS

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Language_Resources
Links to ECMA 262 specs.

HTML.

<noscript> tag used to render HTML if JavaScript disabled in browser.

Including JavaScript in HTML page.

In head:

<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="abc.js"></script>
  </head>
 ...
<html>

or alternatively just before closing body:

  <script src="abc.js"></script>
</body>
<html>

Note

HTML 5 makes type="text/javascript" unnecessary.

Inlining JavaScript in HTML code.

<html>
  <h1>Hello!<h1/>
  <script language="javascript">
    <!--
    alert("Hello!")
    document.write("sin(10) = " + Math.sin(10))
    //-->
  </script>
</html>

Reduce js code size.

http://crockford.com/javascript/jsmin
The JavaScript Minifier
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/
YUI Compressor

JavaScript standards.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
ECMAScript Language Specification.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262-arch.htm
ECMAScript Language Specification.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-327.htm
ECMAScript 3rd Edition Compact Profile
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-290.htm
ECMAScript Components Specification.

JavaScript versions.

JavaScript 1.5 was introduced back in 1999.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference#JavaScript.2FBrowser_support_history
List of versions with CHANGES.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript#Versions
List of versions per browser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#Version_correspondence
List of versions.
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es5/
ECMAScript 5 compatibility table.
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
ECMAScript 6 compatibility table.
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es7/
ECMAScript 7 compatibility table.
http://caniuse.com/use-strict
Can I use ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode?

Level of feature support in JS engines

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
ES6 compatibility table.
http://node.green/
Node.js features.
https://fhinkel.rocks/six-speed/
Performance of ES6 features relative to the ES5 baseline operations.

Pretty print from JavaScript.

console.debug("%o", obj);

Logging in JS.

To Web Developer console (Firefox/Chrome):

console.log("str");
console.info("str is %s", "str");
console.warn("this is %o", this);
console.error("int: %i, float: %f, string: %s, object: %o", 2, .333, "str", this);

To see stack-trace use:

console.trace();
console.log(new Error().stack); // only FF

XML from JavaScript.

Powerful, standards-compliant JavaScript XML parser that is designed to help web application designers implement cross platform applications that take advantage of client-side manipulation of XML data. XML for <SCRIPT> provides a full suite of tools, including:

http://xmljs.sourceforge.net/
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