I am learning Javascript, and following Crockford to do so. But one thing scares me: The Yahoo page is essentially unusable to me unless I turn off Javascript. It bogs my machine down (not that old, a couple of years and 4 gb of ram).
I don't want my site to behave like theirs. Is he somehow responsible for their site's architecture? I have trouble with both yahoo.com and my.yahoo.com- which I used to use quite a bit.
Crockford didn't even work for Yahoo until sometime after 2002, long after the Yahoo site had been built out. And I believe he works there in "senior member of the very wise tool-building research staff" mode. Based on the biographical sources I've seen, I don't believe he's officially in charge of the YUI library, yet alone any of the rest of Yahoo.
I don't want my site to behave like theirs. Is he somehow responsible for their site's architecture? I have trouble with both yahoo.com and my.yahoo.com- which I used to use quite a bit.