diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bc4fa35ef..8fbf72328 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,9 +47,19 @@ You can also view all the test pdf files on the right side serving
 
 + http://localhost:8888/test/pdfs/?frame
 
+### Learning
 
+Here are some initial pointers to help contributors get off the ground. 
+Additional resources are available in a separate section below.
 
-### Hello world
+#### Introductory video
+
+Check out the presentation by our contributor Julian Viereck on the inner 
+workings of PDF and pdf.js:
+
++ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv15UY-4Fg8
+
+#### Hello world
 
 For a "hello world" example, take a look at:
 
@@ -80,7 +90,7 @@ You can add your name to it! :)
 
 
 
-## Running the Tests
+## Running the tests
 
 pdf.js comes with browser-level regression tests that allow one to probe 
 whether it's able to successfully parse PDFs, as well as compare its output
@@ -146,7 +156,7 @@ Follow us on twitter: @pdfjs
   
   
   
-## Additional resources to understand the structure of PDF
+## PDF-related resources
 
 A really basic overview of PDF is described here:
 
diff --git a/extensions/firefox/components/pdfContentHandler.js b/extensions/firefox/components/pdfContentHandler.js
index e4b6a2a55..879924047 100644
--- a/extensions/firefox/components/pdfContentHandler.js
+++ b/extensions/firefox/components/pdfContentHandler.js
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ function loadDocument(aWindow, aDocumentUrl) {
 }
 
 let WebProgressListener = {
-  init: function(aWindow, aUrl) {
+  init: function WebProgressListenerInit(aWindow, aUrl) {
     this._locationHasChanged = false;
     this._documentUrl = aUrl;
 
diff --git a/pdf.js b/pdf.js
index 8cb1a062e..36e572eb7 100644
--- a/pdf.js
+++ b/pdf.js
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ function getPdf(arg, callback) {
   xhr.expected = (document.URL.indexOf('file:') === 0) ? 0 : 200;
 
   if ('progress' in params)
-    xhr.onprogrss = params.progress || undefined;
+    xhr.onprogress = params.progress || undefined;
 
   if ('error' in params)
     xhr.onerror = params.error || undefined;
diff --git a/utils/fonts_utils.js b/utils/fonts_utils.js
index 3b5644ab4..654e98db1 100644
--- a/utils/fonts_utils.js
+++ b/utils/fonts_utils.js
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ function readFontIndexData(aStream, aIsByte) {
   return objects;
 }
 
-var Type2Parser = function(aFilePath) {
+var Type2Parser = function type2Parser(aFilePath) {
   var font = new Dict();
 
   var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ var Type2Parser = function(aFilePath) {
     }
   }
 
-  this.parse = function(aStream) {
+  this.parse = function type2ParserParse(aStream) {
     font.set('major', aStream.getByte());
     font.set('minor', aStream.getByte());
     font.set('hdrSize', aStream.getByte());
diff --git a/web/compatibility.js b/web/compatibility.js
index 2301678d5..36df0e2a5 100644
--- a/web/compatibility.js
+++ b/web/compatibility.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 'use strict';
 
 // Checking if the typed arrays are supported
-(function() {
+(function checkTypedArrayCompatibility() {
   if (typeof Uint8Array !== 'undefined')
     return;
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     return this.slice(start, end);
   }
 
-  function set_function(array, offset) {
+  function setArrayOffset(array, offset) {
     if (arguments.length < 2)
       offset = 0;
     for (var i = 0, n = array.length; i < n; ++i, ++offset)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     result.subarray = subarray;
     result.buffer = result;
     result.byteLength = result.length;
-    result.set = set_function;
+    result.set = setArrayOffset;
 
     if (typeof arg1 === 'object' && arg1.buffer)
       result.buffer = arg1.buffer;
@@ -49,31 +49,31 @@
 })();
 
 // Object.create() ?
-(function() {
+(function checkObjectCreateCompatibility() {
   if (typeof Object.create !== 'undefined')
     return;
 
-  Object.create = function(proto) {
-    var constructor = function() {};
+  Object.create = function objectCreate(proto) {
+    var constructor = function objectCreateConstructor() {};
     constructor.prototype = proto;
     return new constructor();
   };
 })();
 
 // Object.defineProperty() ?
-(function() {
+(function checkObjectDefinePropertyCompatibility() {
   if (typeof Object.defineProperty !== 'undefined')
     return;
 
-  Object.defineProperty = function(obj, name, def) {
+  Object.defineProperty = function objectDefineProperty(obj, name, def) {
     delete obj[name];
     if ('get' in def)
       obj.__defineGetter__(name, def['get']);
     if ('set' in def)
       obj.__defineSetter__(name, def['set']);
     if ('value' in def) {
-      obj.__defineSetter__(name, function(value) {
-        this.__defineGetter__(name, function() {
+      obj.__defineSetter__(name, function objectDefinePropertySetter(value) {
+        this.__defineGetter__(name, function objectDefinePropertyGetter() {
           return value;
         });
         return value;
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 })();
 
 // No XMLHttpRequest.response ?
-(function() {
+(function checkXMLHttpRequestResponseCompatibility() {
   var xhrPrototype = XMLHttpRequest.prototype;
   if ('response' in xhrPrototype ||
       'mozResponseArrayBuffer' in xhrPrototype ||
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
   // IE ?
   if (typeof VBArray !== 'undefined') {
     Object.defineProperty(xhrPrototype, 'response', {
-      get: function() {
+      get: function xmlHttpRequestResponseGet() {
         return new Uint8Array(new VBArray(this.responseBody).toArray());
       }
     });
@@ -122,14 +122,14 @@
 })();
 
 // window.btoa (base64 encode function) ?
-(function() {
+(function checkWindowBtoaCompatibility() {
   if ('btoa' in window)
     return;
 
   var digits =
     'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';
 
-  window.btoa = function(chars) {
+  window.btoa = function windowBtoa(chars) {
     var buffer = '';
     var i, n;
     for (i = 0, n = chars.length; i < n; i += 3) {
@@ -147,13 +147,13 @@
 })();
 
 // Function.prototype.bind ?
-(function() {
+(function checkFunctionPrototypeBindCompatibility() {
   if (typeof Function.prototype.bind !== 'undefined')
     return;
 
-  Function.prototype.bind = function(obj) {
+  Function.prototype.bind = function functionPrototypeBind(obj) {
     var fn = this, headArgs = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);
-    var bound = function() {
+    var bound = function functionPrototypeBindBound() {
       var args = Array.prototype.concat.apply(headArgs, arguments);
       return fn.apply(obj, args);
     };
@@ -162,15 +162,15 @@
 })();
 
 // IE9 text/html data URI
-(function() {
+(function checkDocumentDocumentModeCompatibility() {
   if (document.documentMode !== 9)
     return;
   // overriding the src property
   var originalSrcDescriptor = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(
     HTMLIFrameElement.prototype, 'src');
   Object.defineProperty(HTMLIFrameElement.prototype, 'src', {
-    get: function() { return this.$src; },
-    set: function(src) {
+    get: function htmlIFrameElementPrototypeSrcGet() { return this.$src; },
+    set: function htmlIFrameElementPrototypeSrcSet(src) {
       this.$src = src;
       if (src.substr(0, 14) != 'data:text/html') {
         originalSrcDescriptor.set.call(this, src);
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
       // for text/html, using blank document and then
       // document's open, write, and close operations
       originalSrcDescriptor.set.call(this, 'about:blank');
-      setTimeout((function() {
+      setTimeout((function htmlIFrameElementPrototypeSrcOpenWriteClose() {
         var doc = this.contentDocument;
         doc.open('text/html');
         doc.write(src.substr(src.indexOf(',') + 1));
@@ -189,3 +189,4 @@
     enumerable: true
   });
 })();
+
diff --git a/web/viewer.js b/web/viewer.js
index 230464473..34a1cf847 100644
--- a/web/viewer.js
+++ b/web/viewer.js
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ var kMinScale = 0.25;
 var kMaxScale = 4.0;
 
 
-var Cache = function(size) {
+var Cache = function cacheCache(size) {
   var data = [];
-  this.push = function(view) {
+  this.push = function cachePush(view) {
     data.push(view);
     if (data.length > size)
       data.shift().update();
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ var PDFView = {
   currentScale: kDefaultScale,
   initialBookmark: document.location.hash.substring(1),
 
-  setScale: function(val, resetAutoSettings) {
+  setScale: function pdfViewSetScale(val, resetAutoSettings) {
     var pages = this.pages;
     for (var i = 0; i < pages.length; i++)
       pages[i].update(val * kCssUnits);
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ var PDFView = {
     window.dispatchEvent(event);
   },
 
-  parseScale: function(value, resetAutoSettings) {
+  parseScale: function pdfViewParseScale(value, resetAutoSettings) {
     if ('custom' == value)
       return;
 
@@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ var PDFView = {
     }
   },
 
-  zoomIn: function() {
+  zoomIn: function pdfViewZoomIn() {
     var newScale = Math.min(kMaxScale, this.currentScale * kDefaultScaleDelta);
     this.setScale(newScale, true);
   },
 
-  zoomOut: function() {
+  zoomOut: function pdfViewZoomOut() {
     var newScale = Math.max(kMinScale, this.currentScale / kDefaultScaleDelta);
     this.setScale(newScale, true);
   },
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ var PDFView = {
     return currentPageNumber;
   },
 
-  open: function(url, scale) {
+  open: function pdfViewOpen(url, scale) {
     if (url.indexOf('http') == 0)
       return;
 
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ var PDFView = {
       });
   },
 
-  navigateTo: function(dest) {
+  navigateTo: function pdfViewNavigateTo(dest) {
     if (typeof dest === 'string')
       dest = this.destinations[dest];
     if (!(dest instanceof Array))
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ var PDFView = {
     }
   },
 
-  getDestinationHash: function(dest) {
+  getDestinationHash: function pdfViewGetDestinationHash(dest) {
     if (typeof dest === 'string')
       return '#' + escape(dest);
     if (dest instanceof Array) {
@@ -155,18 +155,18 @@ var PDFView = {
     return '';
   },
 
-  error: function() {
+  error: function pdfViewError() {
     var loadingIndicator = document.getElementById('loading');
     loadingIndicator.innerHTML = 'Error';
   },
 
-  progress: function(level) {
+  progress: function pdfViewProgress(level) {
     var percent = Math.round(level * 100);
     var loadingIndicator = document.getElementById('loading');
     loadingIndicator.innerHTML = 'Loading... ' + percent + '%';
   },
 
-  load: function(data, scale) {
+  load: function pdfViewLoad(data, scale) {
     var loadingIndicator = document.getElementById('loading');
     loadingIndicator.style.display = 'none';
 
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ var PDFView = {
       this.page = 1;
   },
 
-  setHash: function(hash) {
+  setHash: function pdfViewSetHash(hash) {
     if (!hash)
       return;
 
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ var PDFView = {
       PDFView.navigateTo(unescape(hash));
   },
 
-  switchSidebarView: function(view) {
+  switchSidebarView: function pdfViewSwitchSidebarView(view) {
     var thumbsScrollView = document.getElementById('sidebarScrollView');
     var outlineScrollView = document.getElementById('outlineScrollView');
     var thumbsSwitchButton = document.getElementById('thumbsSwitch');
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ var PDFView = {
     }
   },
 
-  getVisiblePages: function() {
+  getVisiblePages: function pdfViewGetVisiblePages() {
     var pages = this.pages;
     var kBottomMargin = 10;
     var visiblePages = [];
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ var PDFView = {
   }
 };
 
-var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
-                        stats, navigateTo) {
+var PageView = function pageView(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
+                                 stats, navigateTo) {
   this.id = id;
   this.content = content;
 
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
   container.appendChild(anchor);
   container.appendChild(div);
 
-  this.update = function(scale) {
+  this.update = function pageViewUpdate(scale) {
     this.scale = scale || this.scale;
     div.style.width = (this.width * this.scale) + 'px';
     div.style.height = (this.height * this.scale) + 'px';
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
   function setupLinks(content, scale) {
     function bindLink(link, dest) {
       link.href = PDFView.getDestinationHash(dest);
-      link.onclick = function() {
+      link.onclick = function pageViewSetupLinksOnclick() {
         if (dest)
           PDFView.navigateTo(dest);
         return false;
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
     }
   }
 
-  this.scrollIntoView = function(dest) {
+  this.scrollIntoView = function pageViewScrollIntoView(dest) {
       if (!dest) {
         div.scrollIntoView(true);
         return;
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
       if (scale)
         PDFView.setScale(scale, true);
 
-      setTimeout(function() {
+      setTimeout(function pageViewScrollIntoViewRelayout() {
         // letting page to re-layout before scrolling
         var scale = PDFView.currentScale;
         var x = Math.min(boundingRect[0].x, boundingRect[1].x);
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
       }, 0);
   };
 
-  this.draw = function() {
+  this.draw = function pageviewDraw() {
     if (div.hasChildNodes()) {
       this.updateStats();
       return false;
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
     return true;
   };
 
-  this.updateStats = function() {
+  this.updateStats = function pageViewUpdateStats() {
     var t1 = stats.compile, t2 = stats.fonts, t3 = stats.render;
     var str = 'Time to compile/fonts/render: ' +
               (t1 - stats.begin) + '/' + (t2 - t1) + '/' + (t3 - t2) + ' ms';
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ var PageView = function(container, content, id, pageWidth, pageHeight,
   };
 };
 
-var ThumbnailView = function(container, page, id, pageRatio) {
+var ThumbnailView = function thumbnailView(container, page, id, pageRatio) {
   var anchor = document.createElement('a');
   anchor.href = '#' + id;
   anchor.onclick = function stopNivigation() {
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ var ThumbnailView = function(container, page, id, pageRatio) {
   anchor.appendChild(div);
   container.appendChild(anchor);
 
-  this.draw = function() {
+  this.draw = function thumbnailViewDraw() {
     if (div.hasChildNodes())
       return;
 
@@ -495,16 +495,16 @@ var ThumbnailView = function(container, page, id, pageRatio) {
     div.style.height = (view.height * scaleY) + 'px';
     div.style.lineHeight = (view.height * scaleY) + 'px';
 
-    page.startRendering(ctx, function() { });
+    page.startRendering(ctx, function thumbnailViewDrawStartRendering() {});
   };
 };
 
-var DocumentOutlineView = function(outline) {
+var DocumentOutlineView = function documentOutlineView(outline) {
   var outlineView = document.getElementById('outlineView');
 
   function bindItemLink(domObj, item) {
     domObj.href = PDFView.getDestinationHash(item.dest);
-    domObj.onclick = function(e) {
+    domObj.onclick = function documentOutlineViewOnclick(e) {
       PDFView.navigateTo(item.dest);
       return false;
     };
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ var DocumentOutlineView = function(outline) {
   }
 };
 
-window.addEventListener('load', function(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('load', function webViewerLoad(evt) {
   var params = document.location.search.substring(1).split('&');
   for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
     var param = params[i].split('=');
@@ -550,15 +550,15 @@ window.addEventListener('load', function(evt) {
     document.getElementById('fileInput').value = null;
 }, true);
 
-window.addEventListener('pdfload', function(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('pdfload', function webViewerPdfload(evt) {
   PDFView.load(evt.detail);
 }, true);
 
-window.addEventListener('pdfprogress', function(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('pdfprogress', function webViewerPdfProgress(evt) {
   PDFView.progress(evt.detail);
 }, true);
 
-window.addEventListener('pdferror', function(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('pdferror', function webViewerPdfError(evt) {
   PDFView.error();
 }, true);
 
@@ -582,29 +582,29 @@ function updateViewarea() {
     PDFView.page = firstPage.id;
 }
 
-window.addEventListener('scroll', function onscroll(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('scroll', function webViewerScroll(evt) {
   updateViewarea();
 }, true);
 
-window.addEventListener('resize', function onscroll(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('resize', function webViewerResize(evt) {
   if (document.getElementById('pageWidthOption').selected ||
       document.getElementById('pageFitOption').selected)
       PDFView.parseScale(document.getElementById('scaleSelect').value);
   updateViewarea();
 });
 
-window.addEventListener('hashchange', function(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('hashchange', function webViewerHashchange(evt) {
   PDFView.setHash(document.location.hash.substring(1));
 });
 
-window.addEventListener('change', function(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('change', function webViewerChange(evt) {
   var files = evt.target.files;
   if (!files || files.length == 0)
     return;
 
   // Read the local file into a Uint8Array.
   var fileReader = new FileReader();
-  fileReader.onload = function(evt) {
+  fileReader.onload = function webViewerChangeFileReaderOnload(evt) {
     var data = evt.target.result;
     var buffer = new ArrayBuffer(data.length);
     var uint8Array = new Uint8Array(buffer);
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ window.addEventListener('change', function(evt) {
   document.title = file.name;
 }, true);
 
-window.addEventListener('transitionend', function(evt) {
+window.addEventListener('transitionend', function webViewerTransitionend(evt) {
   var pageIndex = 0;
   var pagesCount = PDFView.pages.length;
 
diff --git a/web/viewer_worker.html b/web/viewer_worker.html
index 21a5be3ca..177f7b3b9 100644
--- a/web/viewer_worker.html
+++ b/web/viewer_worker.html
@@ -9,16 +9,15 @@
 
 
 var pdfDoc;
-window.onload = function() {
+window.onload = function webViewerWorkerOnload() {
     window.canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
     window.ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
 
     pdfDoc = new WorkerPDFDoc(window.canvas);
-    pdfDoc.onChangePage = function(numPage) {
+    pdfDoc.onChangePage = function webViewerWorkerOnChangePage(numPage) {
         document.getElementById("pageNumber").value = numPage;
     }
-    // pdfDoc.open("canvas.pdf", function() {
-    pdfDoc.open("compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf", function() {
+    pdfDoc.open("compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf", function webViewerWorkerOpen() {
         document.getElementById("numPages").innerHTML = "/" + pdfDoc.numPages;
     })
 }