Added a more descriptive error message for if, do, for, and while statements....
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jpdavenportjr
Mar 12, 2008 5:13 pm
Here at the US Courts we use YUI for our electronic case management system, and recently use JLint to clean up our JavaScript code. Although I personally...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 12, 2008 6:55 pm
JSLint also replaces tabs with 4 spaces. I can't recommend use of eval. Instead, try http://www.JSON.org/json2.js...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 12, 2008 6:56 pm
An option has been added to support Windows Sidebar. It is the same as the browser option, except that it also predefines System....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 13, 2008 12:35 pm
JSLint now allows the letters in the tag, g i m, to appear in any order. I had been expecting they would always be in alphabetical order....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 15, 2008 12:26 pm
I have been convinced that . in Regular Expression literals is dangerous because it usually does not precisely match what was intended. That can lead to...
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Donavon West
donavon.west
Mar 15, 2008 5:34 pm
... I think this is a good option. I'm not sure if I will use it (at least not at first) but this has me thinking more about my regular expressions and using...
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Jacob Davenport
jpdavenportjr
Mar 20, 2008 3:18 pm
In the world of Perl, we have this great book called Perl Best Practices, and there Conway argues that "else" should be written like this: if (ping == pong) { ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 20, 2008 4:19 pm
This isn't Perl. JavaScript has a dangerous semicolon insertion mechanism. More rigor is demanded....
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Jacob Davenport
jpdavenportjr
Mar 20, 2008 5:22 pm
... It certainly isn't Perl. I'd argue it's much easier to write bad code in Perl than JavaScript, but at least it doesn't insert semicolons for you. You've...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 29, 2008 1:41 pm
JSLint now prohibits assignment to the arguments pseudoarray. The problem is that arguments is not a snapshot of the arguments that are bound to the...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 31, 2008 4:06 pm
JSLint now recognizes Konfabulator's FormFiled constructor....
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Chris
altearius
Mar 31, 2008 8:47 pm
Howdy, When "Assume a Browser" is checked, why does the following code cause a problem? var o = new Option(); Is there some browser that does not support the...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Mar 31, 2008 9:45 pm
... That's a blast from the past. JSLint now accepts it....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 2, 2008 9:20 pm
When confronted with a number literal like .0725 JSLint no longer reports Don't use extra leading zeros '0725'. but it does report A leading decimal point can...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 5, 2008 3:04 pm
I added a warning to the web page edition at http://www.JSLint.com/: WARNING: JSLint will hurt your feelings. I relaxed the ADsafe restriction on the [ ]...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 8, 2008 11:31 pm
I have added a glovar option. When glovar: true, then var cannot be used to declare global variables. Fiann O'Hagan convinced me that many programmers have a...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 9, 2008 11:51 pm
I relaxed ADsafe to allow limited access to the standard globals....
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hass0002
Apr 10, 2008 2:32 am
... Do you think it would be a good idea to include a version comment in the JSLint source file? I'm working on something and I think it would be good to say...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 10, 2008 3:28 am
... I use dates....
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Cory Bennett
corynbennett
Apr 14, 2008 8:44 am
Hello, I got this error from jslint: Unsafe character. fn("FAILED—" + message); The '—' is char 226 or 0xe2. It is not ascii, but I was wondering why it ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 14, 2008 5:39 pm
... why it ... There are characters that are handled inconsistently in the various implementations, and so must be escaped when placed in strings, and must...
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hass0002
Apr 15, 2008 5:30 am
Hi, I have created an MSBuild task that can be used to automate the process of running the JSLint tool on Javascript files. You can read about it on my blog at...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 15, 2008 4:26 pm
I added arguments to the set of excluded members. The set now contains apply arguments call callee caller constructor eval prototype unwatch valueOf watch...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 16, 2008 2:04 am
escape & unescape do not do url encoding correctly and they are not in the official standard. JSLint no longer accepts them. If you want JSLint to pass crappy...
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Re Miya
remiya_ws
Apr 16, 2008 6:17 pm
... Hello Douglas, This is the first time I heard that escape and unescape do not do URL encoding correctly, and are not in the official standard. Where can I ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 17, 2008 6:08 pm
The ECMAScript standard reserves the following words: abstract boolean byte char double final float implements int interface long native package private...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 17, 2008 6:30 pm
... See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/js56jsmthescape.asp...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 18, 2008 9:27 pm
JSLint now rejects a string that starts with 'javascript:'. It previously rejected a string that contained 'javascript:'. Thanks to Timo....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 18, 2008 11:14 pm
I corrected an error in JSLint that created a scope around labeled statements. function a() { foo: for (var i = 0; false;) { } return i; } As a result, it used...
