Thomas, Man, if only there was something negative and bad around semicolon insertion, besides JSLint yelling at you ;-) I appreciate the props, especially com

Thomas, Man, if only there was something negative and bad around semicolon insertion, besides JSLint yelling at you ;-) I appreciate the props, especially coming from someone of your caliber. The talk was exactly what you said it was, a survey of nasty tricks that people have used. The goal was to review features of JavaScript, the DOM, plug-ins, etc, that seemed like a good idea (getting computed styles, rich error handling around the Image object, window.onerror as a massive TRY...CATCH that can recover syntax errors, runtime modification of code, etc) and how those have been twisted to create some nasty problems. More importantly, nasty problems that we really cannot patch away. If we know how we created design flaws in the past, hopefully we will not do them in the future. Billy