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I ran across a mention of “Prototype-Based Programming” back when I was first learning JavaScript.  I thought it would be an interesting read, but forgot to bookmark it, and forgot to look into it further.  Once I finally remembered it, it proved hard to find (and an expensive gamble from Amazon), until I found it […]

I recently read Object Oriented JavaScript, by Stoyan Stefanov. In reviewing it, I found it was one of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while, for some good reasons and a few more curious reasons.

After spending a small part of my evening debugging Javascript in IE (which is ALWAYS a pleasure), I found out one of my errors was a mistake I had made before… trying to access button.value in IE.  IE, of course, being IE, returns the innerHTML value of the button, instead of the value attribute.  Last […]

So I guess it’s simply the time of year. Many big releases today… software, APIs, and more! First, the biggest. IE8 has been released in initial beta. The release was also included a general overview of IE8’s new features and fixes. It’s actually quite a lot of information to absorb all at once. I’ve skimmed […]

This is an interesting little function that I ran across in Kent Dybvig’s The Scheme Programming Language. I thought I would give it a go in javascript. I wrote it out, and ran into two problems. First, I wasn’t returning anything from the anonymous-self-executing function, so it was being garbage collected, and the call to […]

Started reading through Advanced DOM Scripting by Jeffrey Sambells. Normally would wait to comment until I got to the end, but I am excited that he mentioned both the scope chain and closures in the first chapter! As my sister would say, “Sweet Lovin!”