On Jan 14, 2:45 am, cancel bubble <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm attempting to build a little utility script I can include in all my dev
> projects/environment that will report any global variables.  I can then
> investigate these globals and leave as-is ($ and jQuery for example) or
> hopefully correct them to not be globals.  The goal is to reduce the number
> of global variables.  My dev environment is currently Firefox so that's the
> only browser I'm concerned with this running in (at the moment).  I have an
> initial script up at:
>
> http://jsbin.com/oniyi3
>
> And would love some feedback, particularly in how I'm detecting global
> vars.  What I came up with doing is:
>
> Iterate through the global window object to generate a list of all the
> native global properties in my current version of Firefox.  I did this via
> the console.log() and just copied/pasted the results into an array.  You'll
> see this at line 75.  I then basically do the same thing again and compare
> with this "native_firefox" array.  Any differences would be the user-defined
> globals, which is what I'm interested in.  I then just output them at the
> top right of the screen and I've got a list of globals to investigate.
>
> My concern with the "native_firefox" array is new properties are going to
> show up with new versions of Firefox so it's a manual maintenance issue,
> which I'd love to avoid.
>
> Is there an automated way to get a list of all native global properties?
>

An IFRAME is the right way to go... Compare global properties of a
native IFRAME with those of your global scope.

--
Diego


> Thanks!

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