A tail of Javascript libraries, and my pondering about David Mark
<p>I'm an frontend developer, and as such I end up doing some amount of Javascript. I have an interest in the language, so I follow a number of blogs, hang out in forums, etc..</p>

<p>I have noticed a person going by the name of David Mark, going around places throwing shit at everybody's favorite library. Over time, a question has been sort of haunting me about David Mark: if you take away the man, what about his technical comments, and his own library ?</p>

<p>I mean, I totally understand that he is a self-righteous prick, who has failed to establish any sort of dialog, and we seem to prefer adding insult to injury rather than reaching out and giving a hand. It's kinda hard to listen to the messenger when he is spitting on you and slapping you in the face. However, his most technical comments seem to make sense to me, in particular the idea of feature detection vs sniffing (ex: <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/dojo-1-5-is-out-and-its-feature-packed" rel="nofollow">http://ajaxian.com/archives/dojo-1-5-is-out-and-its-feature-packed</a>). </p>

<p>So I'm curious. Has anyone used his library, or looked at any of his code ? What about his technical comments and point of views ? Do they make sense ? Is this a time where you have to forget about the messenger and try to listen to the message ?</p>

<p>PS: I'm in no way affiliated with David Mark. Also this is not entirely a technical question per se, but I wasn't sure where else to ask it.</p>
