... 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...
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Julien R
julien_roy
Apr 21, 2008 3:03 pm
I've already asked Douglas this question before, and I know that JsLint has to hurt my feelings, but I don't understand the need for this check. For a...
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santini.alberto
Apr 28, 2008 4:33 pm
Hello. In my javascript files I define, as first line, a namespace like var FOO = YAHOO.namespace("foo"); // alias for YAHOO.foo using Yahoo! User Interface...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 28, 2008 5:01 pm
/*global FOO*/ FOO = YAHOO.namespace("foo");...
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santini.alberto
Apr 29, 2008 9:38 am
... Ops... so simple! :) I missed that because I deleted 'var' and I get "'FOO' is undefined.". The tricky part is adding /*global FOO */. Thanks again, ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
May 6, 2008 9:10 pm
JSLint will now providing a warning for code like this: function foo(a) { var i; for (i = 0; i < a.length; i += 1) { a[i].onclick = function (e) { alert(i); };...
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klemen.slavic
May 7, 2008 9:50 pm
When constructing a singleton in JS using an anonymous constructor, JSlint returns a "Weird construction" error. Here's the code: /*globals A*/ A = new...
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Alan Green
alanggreen
May 11, 2008 4:12 am
Hi Although this is really a javascript (not jslint) issue, could you explain why one should make the function valus in a closure. Thanks Alan ... make...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
May 11, 2008 1:07 pm
... Drop the unnecessary new operator, then it will be correct....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
May 11, 2008 1:10 pm
... The common failure case was shown in the example, attaching event handlers in a loop. If the event handlers are bound to variables that are mutated by the...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
May 12, 2008 4:54 pm
When immediately invoking a function literal, parens must wrap the expression when it is used in the statement position because of an ambiguity in the grammar...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
May 16, 2008 3:49 pm
JSLint now issues a warning if it sees the close script tag in a comment....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
May 19, 2008 3:58 pm
I added the JSON object to the list of objects that are provided by the standard, in anticipation of the next edition of the ECMAScript standard....
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Re Miya
remiya_ws
May 20, 2008 8:31 pm
In jQuery there is the following code when throwing error in an Ajax call: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { // typically only one of...
