Step 1: (re)learn HTML5

Read the following book:

• Dive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim

Step 2: learn Javascript

Read the following articles and books:

• A re-introduction to Javascript
• Javascript: the good parts (link to PDF copy of Nexedi XXX)
• Javascript Garden
• Eloquent Javascript
  
• Javascript Hints and Traps (to be reviewed and converted to Web Page)

Step 3: (re)learn delegation and reflexivity 

Read the following articles:

• Delegation in Javascript provides a few links to understand prototype programming and reflexivity.

Step 4: read examples

Look at the following applications and their source code:

• UNG 2.0 - it shows that a complex JS app can be implemented fully on browser side and use local storage to store documents (even though the code is dirty here)

Step 5: learn JQuery and other important libraries

JQuery is now a quasi-standard in javascript development, so it is really necessary to learn it. The general documentation provides many tutorials. We selected these for now (this list will be reviewed):

• How jQuery Works John Resig. A basic introduction to jQuery and the concepts that you need to know to use it
• jQuery Plugin Authoring Learn how to develop a jQuery plugin

JQueryUI will be used in most projets related to Resilience, UNG, ERP5:

• jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery (link to Nexedi copy XXX)
  

Step 6: learn about what others are doing

• From Linux Desktop to Virtual Desktop: How AJAX and HTML5 Change Perspectives
  

Step 7: keep updated

• JQuery UI Blog tells you what happens in JQuery world
  
• ParisJS has the latest trends in Javascript
• wtjs provides hints on JS traps one ought to know

Unsorted and untested:

• Oreilly JavaScript the definitive guide  - http://books.google.fr/books?id=6TAODdEIxrgC
• Oreilly JavaScript web applications - http://books.google.fr/books?id=UPY7Tt_nlBAC
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns a book by Addy Osmani