To concatenate strings I use: // Concatenation of string 'str', n times. function repeatstr (n, str) { var an = new Array(1 + n); return an.join(str); } ... ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 3, 2008 12:55 am
... var an = []; an.length = n + 1;...
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riderpaulpaul
Aug 4, 2008 3:54 am
One big issue in JavaScript is the onload issue. Many of the frameworks have a periodic check to see if the body has loaded using various methods. Since script...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 4, 2008 10:51 pm
... I don't see how it solves anything. There is a lot in the HTML recommendations that doesn't make sense, but the requirement that the tags all go either...
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Paul de Jong
riderpaulpaul
Aug 4, 2008 11:28 pm
The issue I was referring to is that the body tag needs to be completely loaded before a DOM script runs, especially if you have something like...
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Andy Stevens
andystevens_...
Aug 5, 2008 2:36 pm
... Not always, I have inline scripts that work just fine so long as the parts of the DOM they are manipulating are ready & available. ... Seems reasonable to...
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Paul de Jong
riderpaulpaul
Aug 5, 2008 6:00 pm
The issue with onload is that it is not ondomload, so if any file being downloaded takes too long the script does not fire and the user could be interacting...
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montago_2004
Aug 6, 2008 1:16 pm
... no.. its very good practise to code and debug... do you disagree ? this trick relies on a proper parser. I've made it work in my Editor... also works in...
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Klemen SlaviÄ
klemen.slavic
Aug 6, 2008 1:30 pm
IMHO, I don't think it's the domain of JSlint to handle these kind of comments, since the output of this algorithm is supposed to be clean code that is meant...
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montago_2004
Aug 6, 2008 5:07 pm
... code ... comments still ... code leak ... If only JSLint would report it as an "Error"... JSLint stops completely, so its not even possible to simply...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 6, 2008 5:15 pm
... upon ... http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/e53f483dd67e4d08/f72f7832ead80dfb?lnk=gst&q=JSLint#f72f7832ead80dfb ... JSLint stops...
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montago_2004
Aug 6, 2008 8:18 pm
/* Douglas ain't smart. */ Douglas is smart. //------------------------- Q: which of those two statements are more accurate ? A: the one, which is not a...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 6, 2008 8:20 pm
... Yes it should, because sometimes syntax errors are hidden in comments. Again, I caution you to avoid programming conventions that depend on intentional...
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Paul de Jong
riderpaulpaul
Aug 6, 2008 8:47 pm
... For the reasoning behind removing the comments may I recommend: JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas Crockford, O'Reilly, 2008....
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Fred Lorrain
grumelo68
Aug 12, 2008 11:28 am
Hello, Here a piece of code: if (this.newsDetailHasAbstract) {HTML += '<div class="articleAbstract">' + this.myData.record[0][0][3].replace(/<\/?a[^>]*>/gi,'')...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 12, 2008 11:46 am
... Fixed. Thanks for the report....
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Fred Lorrain
grumelo68
Aug 12, 2008 2:59 pm
... Wow ! Incredible! Thank you so much for your quick update. Your tool really rocks....
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Ben Collver
tylx
Aug 13, 2008 5:38 pm
Hi Doug, I wrote an example script and it appears to bind to the current value of the variable "i". The script is at the following URL. ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 13, 2008 6:31 pm
... Create a page with three buttons, a, b, and c. When you click on a button, it alerts its number. Modify your loop to get each element by id and attach an...
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DoNotSay
ghumham
Aug 14, 2008 1:26 pm
I have two functions: function blddrgable() { $j('div.blddrg').draggable("destroy").droppable("destroy"); ...
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Fred Lorrain
grumelo68
Aug 14, 2008 1:26 pm
Hello, Is it a good practice to try to use a single 'var' statement per scope? For sure it help the compression of the script. If it's a best practice can an...
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Fred Lorrain
grumelo68
Aug 14, 2008 1:26 pm
Hello, JSLint generate an error if a symbol is not declared. That's perfect! What about generating a warning if a symbol is declared but never used? A switch...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 14, 2008 2:54 pm
... gboxJSON2("/swapbild",{"von";:$j(this).attr("id"),"nach";:$j(ui.draggable).attr("id")},function(erg){}); ... The global trick obviously only works if the...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 14, 2008 3:33 pm
... I don't understand this....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 14, 2008 3:35 pm
... JSLint does identify unused variables in the function report. Is hat not enough?...
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Arthur Blake
blakesys
Aug 14, 2008 4:07 pm
I think he's trying to ask if it is better to use this form: var x,y,z; versus var x; var y; var z; My opinion is yes, because it makes the script smaller and...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 14, 2008 4:25 pm
... could help ... Thanks, I get it now. I think it is a good suggestion....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 14, 2008 10:16 pm
JSLint is able to parse Yahoo Widgets .kon files. Is any using JSLint on widgets? Would anyone nice if I took that feature out?...
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Fred Lorrain
grumelo68
Aug 15, 2008 3:41 pm
... used? ... It's fine to have it in the report (I haven't seen it) but imagine I have 100 methods in my object. For every unused symbol I will have to track...
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Paul
dwtebriel
Aug 15, 2008 3:41 pm
Hey all, I currently have code that looks like the following: <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ ... //]]> </script> Since I'm doing this in xhtml, my...
