[mikecane]

Need some advice here. I want to learn JavaScript -- but after reading all that, I wonder if all those changes/additions means that I should wait? Or will learning JavaScript now make little difference and all those changes/additions will make sense when enacted?

[bthomas]

Don't wait. First, no guarantee that stuff will actually get adopted, it's still quite abstract. Second, even if so, it will take a while for browsers to catch up, so people will be coding in current JS for a while. Third, much of the current conceptual hurdles will still be relevant, particularly functional style and async design patterns.

Would highly recommend Javascript: The Good Parts, don't know where I would be without it.

[lhnn]

For the record, I just bought "Javascript and jQuery: The Missing Manual 2e" and am impressed with its style of teaching.

Yes, as someone who has programming background, it sometimes seems to be directed at those with no programming experience, but it still helps to start from the beginning and walk through.

As someone with a some CSS, HTML knowledge and no CLUE what the DOM was or how javascript interacts with HTML/CSS, it's been a good few days for me.