Don't use escape. Use encodeURI or encodeURIComponent instead....
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crlender
Dec 7, 2008 2:46 pm
... But what if the server can't handle UTF-8 encoded characters? Many legacy applications are stuck with escape/unescape. - Conrad...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 7, 2008 4:44 pm
... /*global escape */...
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michael.gollmick
michael.goll...
Dec 7, 2008 9:30 pm
... absolutely - that was my solution too ;-) I just thought every browser implements that extension to the ECMA Script and thus expected it to disappear with...
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Chris
altearius
Dec 11, 2008 9:31 pm
The documentation suggests that this should work: /*jslint newcap: true */ or /*jslint newcap: false */ However, JSLint itself complains about this being a...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 12, 2008 1:59 am
... Thanks for the report....
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santini.alberto
Dec 12, 2008 3:04 pm
Maybe I am a bit out of topic, but the subject is the foundation of JSlint. :) Reading "Top Down Operator Precedence" paper [1] and trying to use his ...
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aceblchboy
Dec 13, 2008 5:49 pm
When JSLint encounters a serious error, it stops. Is it possible to program in a error handling statement that breaks out of that block, outputs that lines x-y...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 13, 2008 5:51 pm
... Just fix your code. Hooking JSLint into your editor can be very effective....
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Daniel Cassidy
mail@...
Dec 16, 2008 2:24 pm
Hi, JSLint forbids the following form: var a = var b = foo(); // Expected an identifier and instead saw 'var'. Is this intentional? It can occasionally be...
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Daniel Cassidy
mail@...
Dec 16, 2008 2:30 pm
Hi, With 'assume browser' turned on, JSLint rejects the following: if (n instanceof Document) { // 'Document' is undefined // ... } Shouldn't the DOM classes...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 16, 2008 3:00 pm
... Of course....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 16, 2008 3:01 pm
... My understanding is that these are not universally implemented in all browsers, and so represent a portability trap....
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mnewton32@...
mnewton32
Dec 16, 2008 3:26 pm
I believe the var declaration is not legal as the right side of a statement; it would require 'var b' to return a value, which it does not. Try: var a, b; a =...
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Daniel Cassidy
mail@...
Dec 16, 2008 4:02 pm
... Uhh... sorry. It is of course a syntax error. Chalk that one up to temporary insanity on my part. I was thinking of another language where "var b" is an...
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kaichen67@...
kaichen67
Dec 17, 2008 8:10 pm
... Try this: alert(document); alert(Document); Javascript is case sensitive!...
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mnewton32@...
mnewton32
Dec 17, 2008 8:21 pm
Yes, JS is case sensitive; document is referring to a specific object that exists in all browsers, while Document refers to the class that object should be an...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 19, 2008 11:24 pm
I made two changes to the way JSLint deals with HTML: 1. <!-- --> comments have been relaxed to allow the commenting out of HTML content. JSLint will complain...
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santini.alberto
Dec 23, 2008 10:19 am
What about "let" keyword? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7 For instance, for (let i = 0; i < 10; i = i + 1) { // loop stuff with local...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 23, 2008 1:30 pm
... Of course not. let is not in the standard, and will not be in the next edition. If you care about standards compliance and portability, you will avoid it....
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santini.alberto
Dec 23, 2008 9:12 pm
... Thanks... I know that... but I saw an intensive use of let keyword in the Mozilla extension Ubiquity. And I learn by example... :) Regards, Alberto...
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Dion Almaer
dion_almaer
Dec 23, 2008 11:19 pm
I guess we will have to fork jslint to have a -mozilla option ;) On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:12 PM, santini.alberto ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
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Stoyan Stefanov
ssttoobg
Dec 23, 2008 11:48 pm
Thanks Anton, (forwarding to the jslint group) YSlow has an older version of JSLint, so I pasted your test code into jslint.com and got a different error...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 24, 2008 12:01 am
... The var statement var a = b = 123; is a common error, with people thinking they are declaring two local variables but in reality declaring one local...
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halukakin
Dec 24, 2008 10:26 pm
Hi, I just checked the following small line of code with jslint: document.write('hello'); And I got this error : "document.write can be a form of eval." I...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 24, 2008 10:33 pm
... error. eval comes in several forms, and is usually to be avoided. document.write is the worst of them. If you wish to ignore this advice, check the...
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Mordecai Dotan Hegykozi
lunarslover1979
Jan 1, 2009 7:30 am
Which ActiveX Object should I search for to cover for versions IE 6-8? I was told IE switched their ActiveX Obkect in IE 7 from "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" to...
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crlender
Jan 8, 2009 1:44 pm
This function: function isValidBZ (val) { return /^(?:[1-9]\d*|0)$/.test(val); } triggers the JSLint warning "Wrap the /regexp/ literal in parens to...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 8, 2009 10:06 pm
... This case is decidable, which is why JavaScript parsers are able to work, but there are problems in the language because it can be difficult to determine...
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M. Lorton
mlorton
Jan 9, 2009 9:43 pm
The current version of JSlint (at least on Rhino) only reads the Javascript from an existing file. If it could also optionally read from standard-input, I...
