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My Notes
The best user interaction is no interaction. The user is unaware that they are interacting with the interface in any way. Lots of good examples of not clicking. Also examples of bad design. Worth watching.
Aza made me rethink a pagination example that I had been working on. I may do the switch to an [...]

My Notes
N.B. Speaker is a Mozilla developer. Notes may not apply across all browsers. Also note this speaker should have practiced his talk a few times. His awkwardness and stumbling is the worst of the google tech talks that I’ve seen.
The frame / rendering tree composed of rendedered elements, viewport, scroll bars, etc.
Order: content -> [...]

My notes
Scope chains:
-Store out of scope vars as local vars esp. global b/c they’ll be last on scope chain
-Avoid with: add another obj to scope chain -> local vars are now 1 step away. use local vars instead
-Be careful with try-catch: catch augments scope chain
-Use closure sparingly (add 2 contexts to the scope chain)
-Don’t forget [...]