Archive: February 2006

JS Generics

Feb

28

2006

With JavaScript 1.6 Mozilla introduced generic version of a lot of the Array and String methods. Without broad support these very useful methods are in reality only available to Firefox and Firefox extension. Personally I’ve become too used to them to survive long without them. I’ve previously posted the JS 1.5 array extras and I’ve ...
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Don’t trust this guy

Feb

2

2006

I was reading through an article about Atlas at eWeek where they quote Russ Nemhauser, head of Nemhauser Media Inc.: “JavaScript is not an object-oriented language. It does not have strong typing; there is no exception handling; and there is no inheritance. One of the biggest problems with the AJAX approach is the amount of ...
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JavaScriptProgram LanguagesRantWeb

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IE7b2, is it intentionally this bad?

Feb

1

2006

Here are just a few things that are incorrect, horribly broken or totally non-existent in Internet Explorer Beta 2. (This is far from a complete list. I’m assembling this list as I’m writing this post.) DOM Level 1 Core Comments are still incorrect Attributes are still horribly broken DOM Level 2 Views document.defaultView getComputedStyle getOverrideStyle ...
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Internet ExplorerJavaScriptMicrosoftRantWeb

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