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Post by est » Tue, Jun 29, 2010, 5:05 AM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #21

wrs wrote: post #16

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"Hidden?" Give IE some respect...its rendering may have been crap, but it had plenty of features like this for building robust web applications years before the cool kids realized that might be a good idea.

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get at, evidently unsuccessfully. For all of IE's failings, it does seem to have been first to support an awful lot of scripting features. They've always been documented , but hardly anyone seems to know about them until the other browsers popularise them, and even then IE's implementation seems to be forgotten, presumably because APIs are nonstandard and the docs use differen…

Post by gnaritas » Tue, Jun 29, 2010, 6:49 AM UTC

marcuswestin wrote: post #41

n8agrin wrote: post #26

It seems as though the author does not believe in semicolon use in Javascript. Looks interesting though.

I use semicolons when they're needed (for loops, multiple statements per line), and don't use them when they're not. The code becomes cleaner to my eyes.

Post by calcnerd256 » Tue, Jun 29, 2010, 12:53 PM UTC

cheald wrote: post #46

calcnerd256 wrote: post #44

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because it's a choice Edit: I misread "is" as "could be". It's a good thing to have because it could be a good thing to use. It may be a bad thing to have enabled by default, but it's a bad thing to omit outright.

The potential for abuse is staggering. Yes, it would be good to have to benign purposes, but unless you trust everyone on the internet to act honorably, it's a terrible idea .

Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Jun 29, 2010, 12:59 PM UTC

Post by gnaritas » Tue, Jun 29, 2010, 2:28 PM UTC

timknauf wrote: post #58

gnaritas wrote: post #53

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They're always needed so the JavaScript can be run through a compressor for production deployment without breaking the code. Beyond that you're using curly braces when they're not strictly required, which seems inconsistent. I would expect either both all the time or both only when strictly necessary.

Surely if the language specification calls semicolons optional then any compressor worth its salt should honor that? The YUI Compressor, at least, copes with semicolon-devoid Javascript just fine.