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<title>The JavaScript Encyclopedia: Preface</title>
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<h1>Preface</h1>
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In 2009, as we were wrapping up ES5, I was thinking about how to organize the
material. I designed a hypertext encyclopedia format specifically for
programming languages. I think the format would have worked well, but I never
finished the project.
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It is easy to forget that the web was originally intended to be a hypertext
system. <i><a href="index.html">The JavaScript Encyclopedia</a></i> would have used hypertext very
effectively. Many of the articles would contain code that demonstrated or
implemented the concept.
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I intended that <i><a href="index.html">The JavaScript Encyclopedia</a></i> be finished when ES5 was
released. Not only did I miss that deadline, but since then ES6 has been
published, which was itself four years late. So it is starting to become clear that
I am not going to get this done on my own. I need help.
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The unfinished material can be seen at
<a href="http://www.crockford.com/javascript/encyclopedia">http://www.crockford.com/javascript/encyclopedia</a>.
Contributions may be submitted at
<a href="https://github.com/douglascrockford/TheJavaScriptEncyclopedia">https://github.com/douglascrockford/TheJavaScriptEncyclopedia</a>.
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