More fun and games with Internet Explorer
IE continues to amaze me with the most bizarre bugs.
The present and future of Javascript
It seems that the whole EcmaScript 4 thing has caused a lot of fuss. Some Microsoft bloggers have gone and taken an anti-EmcaScript 4 stance.
*I* think there are two approachs to take to moving the state of “programming language for the web” forward. One of them is to evolve Javascript in [...]
Java Platform Languages
Increasingly there seems to be a move towards language alternatives that function on the Java (VM) Platform. Personally I think the platform itself is the best thing about Java. The language while adequate has never really particularly inspiring. Certainly when I started coding Java it was a big step up from [...]
Effect.Highlight
I was recently trying to get the scriptaculous highlight effect working but it wasn’t playing nice. For some reason it only works from event handlers. After a lot of debugging I narrowed the issue down the to prototype map function not working correctly in conjunction with the bind() call. Since it appears [...]
Javascript
Most people hate Javascript. I can’t really blame them but I think a lot of the bad feeling comes from:
Browser bugs
Browser inconsistency
Poor support for debugging/development (not as much of a problem now)
Lack of a structured approach when learning the language (most people learn just enough of the language to get by)
However as a language [...]