Last week John Resig, Mozilla’s JavaScript Evangelist, was in town to speak on Tamarin and ECMAScript 4 (i.e. JavaScript 2) at Adobe Max Japan, as well ‘The Future of JavaScript‘ an event organized by Mozilla Japan and supported by the JavaScript user community of Japan, Shibuya.JS. A few photos from John’s presentations are available on my Flickr account. The Adobe event had about 100 attendees and the Mozilla Japan event was sold out in less than 3 hours with 106 attendees. This was the second event we’ve done with Shibuya.JS (the first being Mozilla 24 where they had a very popular presentation.)
After John’s presentation, Yoshinori Takesato of Cybozu Labs presented a Shibuya.JS Digest. Yu Kobayashi, Hiroshi Shimoda of Clear Code, and amachang of Cybozu Labs also presented on the state of affairs of JavaScript in Japan and did a Q&A with Resig.
A few people in the audience blogged about the event including Jun Kaneko of Six Apart, naoya_t-san, nitoyon-san, and kawasaki-san.
共有と多様性 : The Future of JavaScript：Goodpic
Shibuya.JS×Mozilla Japan のイベントに John Resig が登場！
The Future of JavaScript メモ – てっく煮ブログ
紫ログ:The Future of JavaScript – livedoor Blog（ブログ）
We also had about 270 people watching the video stream at ustream.tv.
There are a bunch of photos from the event up on Flickr tagged ‘shibuyajs‘.
AtmarkIT (mainstream web media) covered the event:
Let me take a moment to highlight amachang-san’s presentation, ‘Fast JS XPath Engine for IE (and Safari2)’ which he has online at http://amachang.art-code.org/ejohn/
amachang uses jQuery and JavaScript to make a really cool browser-based presentation that looks a lot like Keynote but is online and searchable, etc.. The arrow keys (left and right) step through the presentation slide by slide. The up arrow key shows 20 slides at a time in a 4×5 matrix, and in the matrix mode, you can look at the next 20 slides by using the side arrow keys. The down-arrow key brings you back to the presentation slide. I highly recommend you try it- it’s quite cool.