Aha! Thank you very much for the pointers on this. I apologise for
creating the noise. I would suggest adding something to the main
website about this as I am sure you get a lot of queries from
non-beginner, but non-advanced, developers (people like me).

An excellent product and extremely useful for me.

Thank you again.

Richard Quadling.

On 20/01/07, Thomas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ahm, no.
>
> As there is no compiler involved, these "warnings" are generated by
> the JavaScript interpreter, and are purely meant for catching typos
> and other things. They are more annoying than helpful if you know
> what you're doing.
>
> Mind you, these warnings are purely out of the imagination of the
> developers of one particular browser, and if you get rid of these
> warnings, suddenly other warnings could pop up in the next browser
> version...
>
> Here's an article about it:
> http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/strictJSFirefox.html
>
> We have perfectly valid JavaScript, so no need for a patch. Also, if
> something breaks in JavaScript in 5 years it will take half the
> internet down with it, so no need to have headaches over that... :)
>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
> Am 20.01.2007 um 09:56 schrieb Richard Quadling:
>
> > Would a patch to remove the notices be acceptable to the developers?
> > As a developer of commercial software for nearly 20 years and only
> > recently coming to web development, I am  still learning about what
> > different rules apply. One of the things I've always thought is that
> > if my code produces any sort of warnings now, there is always the
> > chance that in years to come those warnings could become errors. If
> > the compiler/interpreter is producing a warning, then I should code it
> > to remove the possibility of ambiguity. Whilst the code works fine,
> > removing these notices can only be a good thing.
> >
> > I don't want to turn off the notices as my own code sometimes has them
> > and I go "Doh! Duh!" and fit it. It would remove the noise and help
> > other developers who may not be as efficiently experienced and who do
> > make the sort of mistakes that these notices are highlighting.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> > On 19/01/07, Mislav Marohnić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Sorry, read the ill-formed sentence above as "Prototype framework
> >> is coded
> >> in perfectly valid JavaScript..."
> >>
> >> -M
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > -----
> > Richard Quadling
> > Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?
> > c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
> > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
> >
> > >
>
>
> >
>


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Richard Quadling
Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"

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