Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-28 Thread liorean
he same engine. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/ma

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-28 Thread liorean
> liorean wrote: >> (Netscape had originally intended to use the name LiveScript.) 2008/10/28 Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, it was initially released as LiveScript and renamed later. IIRC Navigator 2.0 also supported a mocha: pseudo-protocol like the

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread liorean
2008/10/28 liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, it's a registred trademark of Sun, Actually a Trademark, not a Registred Trademark, apparently. -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http://we

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread liorean
most of the Netscape/Mozilla JavaScript additions to ECMAScript. The name JavaScript is very seldom used by Microsoft. If you read Microsoft employee blogs and official statements, you almost never encounter that term. They prefer to either use their own JScript name or the ECMAScript name. -- David

Re: [WSG] Javascript classical inheritence [was: JavaScript clarification please]

2008-10-27 Thread liorean
hem on top of the language, but you don't get support for it for ordinary language elements or for built in operators. You're still not getting around that there's no built in support for classical inheritance, other than the pseudo-classes that are used in the ECM

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread liorean
rought up the fact it has prototypal inheritance and this is one of the mechanisms that makes it object oriented several times. -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread liorean
it is > prototype-based, you really should edit them as it must be a > miss-representation of javascript. We're not arguing against the articles. We've been arguing constantly throughout this thread that JavaScript may be prototype-based, but that does not make it any less obje

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread liorean
2008/10/27 liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The first implementation of JavaScript is still alive in the form of > Mozilla SpiredMonkey Or SpiderMonkey, as it is properly called :) -- David "liorean" Andersson *

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread liorean
ance to an object based system. Anthony Ziebell is arguing that it's not object oriented based on the false premise that classical inheritance is the way to achieve object orientation and prototypal inheritance is not, despite himself linking articles stating the cont

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread liorean
s a really good place to find tutorials or articles about separate areas of JavaScript: http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/javascript.html> -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http:

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread liorean
languages that are more object oriented. But they use classical inheritance, and because JavaScript does not some people have got into their heads that Classical inheritance == OOP which means JavaScritp != OOP. But that's a

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-23 Thread liorean
> 2008/10/24 Anthony Ziebell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Forgot to clarify one thing: ECMAScript is fully OO in my opinion, however > JavaScript is not a full implementation of ECMAScript, unfortunately. > liorean wrote: > JavaScript is a superset of ECMAScript. If ECMAScript is o

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-23 Thread liorean
wer/useful plant is all in the perspective of the beholder. -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-23 Thread liorean
ce and a deep type hierarchy system. Some have a separate interface scheme that is about object and function signatures connected with the type system but that does not allow code inheritance. Some have only this and no implementation inheritance mechanism. -- David "liorean" And

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-23 Thread liorean
variable size and not dense integer keyed arrays of fixed size. In fact, true arrays are only available in JavaScript in the form of strings, and those are read only. -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelin

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-23 Thread liorean
ed language. It has imperative and functional properties, it has a statement-expression curlies-and-semicolons, it has object orientation and higher order programming features, it has reified closures and lexical scope with a few dynamic scope features etc. It's a hybrid lang

Re: [WSG] When can I start using E4X

2008-01-21 Thread liorean
cks, let expressions etc. 1b. Implementing standard library only fearures. (.hashcode property on all values is an example I'd like to see here) 2. Implementing the features of ES4 in order of what is perceived to give most benefit to web developers with some kind of opt-in flag รก la &qu

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-14 Thread liorean
y is it better to let developers send code specifically for fixing a bug, which creates a dependency of that code on the bug in question, than fixing the bug? If such dependencies are created, they make it harder to actually fix bugs. -- David "liorean" Andersson ***

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2007-11-29 Thread liorean
butes are deprecated in HTML4.01 but really ought not be since they convey semantics that are inherent to the document structure and aren't purely presentational. It's likely they will be un-deprecated in HTML5. -- David

Re: [WSG] document.getElementById slow?

2007-10-06 Thread liorean
g this? I'm pretty sure you're wrong about getElementById having to traverse the full DOM. -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] CSS, the DOM and whitespace (rant)

2007-08-16 Thread liorean
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/selectors-api/Overview.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8> -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live - correct link

2007-08-11 Thread liorean
ish)? Elements that behave like block level elements, I'd say. -- David "liorean" Andersson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Usefulness of JSDoc

2007-07-25 Thread liorean
The code size server side has entirely different impact because of that. Coming to JS from a back-end developer perspective I find this very strange. The perspective difference is quite a lot of the reason, I feel. Different consideration

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-29 Thread liorean
On 29/05/07, Alastair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/29/07, liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems strange that the closing slash is > > taken as the close, rather than the greater than sign, is that in the > > HTML spec somewhere? > Yes, in th

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-29 Thread liorean
ments: http://liorean.net/samplelayout.html> http://liorean.net/sgml-goodness.html> http://liorean.net/xhtmllayout.xhtml> All of them are valid documents and except for DOCTYPE, XML prologue and XHTML namespace the document they describe is identical. -- David "liorean"

Re: [WSG] Wikipedia article help wanted

2007-05-14 Thread liorean
ave zero false positives. I've also been doing some work on trying to present syntax-semantics in a way that lends itself to a SUCCESS/FAILURE/CRASH/PEG result on each feature, but that's trickier... If anyone is interested in helping me writing test cases for that testsuite, just sen

Re: [WSG] input name and id

2007-04-19 Thread liorean
optional for form control input elements (i.e. all type attribute values other than reset and submit, including the value button, entirely independent of whether the form control may be successful or not). -- David "liorean" Andersson

Re: [WSG] input name and id

2007-04-19 Thread liorean
value of submit or reset). The name attribute is required on form controls but not on form functionality. The DTD format doesn't allow this type of granularity however. In other words, just because something is valid according to the HTML DTD doesn't mean it's valid according to t

Re: [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-03-08 Thread liorean
e sure it is either whitelisted or otherwise excluded from the autoresponder. See http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001730.php> -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ** The discussion list for http://webst

Re: [WSG] IE7 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

2006-03-03 Thread liorean
nce there might be a release of ie7b2 to follow. Hopefully Microsoft will realise the risk of confusion and make the next release ie7b3, but I wouldn't count on that. -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/>

Re: [WSG] Today's lesson: "Respect" - be courteous up or leave

2006-02-09 Thread liorean
s two top posts which quote your entire message without any trimming... -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/gui

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread liorean
efinition of how to handle that if no presentational or behavioral hints exists explicitly in the document, because the defaults on not-strictly-semantical aspects are also part of the semantic sets (In my view, at least. Which isn't neccesarily canon...) Counter arguments a

Re: [WSG] Which unit is better for web site font size?

2006-02-01 Thread liorean
ia. Default in Windows is 96 (Windows even calls it DPI), or 120 for large size. -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] HTML Numeric and Named Entities

2006-01-11 Thread liorean
On 11/01/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > liorean wrote: > > Character references refer to Unicode code points independent of the > > document encoding and character set. At least for HTML4 and XML, if > > not for HTML3.2. > > As far as character refer

Re: [WSG] HTML Numeric and Named Entities

2006-01-10 Thread liorean
responding character references. -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-10 Thread liorean
ields instead of coming through the main page? The main page is just a part of the application, not the whole thing. These considerations probably make CSS layout an even better choice for reducing bandwidth consumption. -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/>

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-10 Thread liorean
no CSS support. - Dynamic elements: Things such as being logged in/not logged in, having Google Desktop or not, sponsored links, search listings etc. all need be take in consideration. -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> **

Re: [WSG] Konquerer becomes the 2nd browser to pass Acid2

2005-11-30 Thread liorean
eing the first Windows browser to pass it. -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] Validation error question for XHTML Strict

2005-05-05 Thread liorean
no elements in between. You currently have div > form > input But the input need to be contained in one of the listed elements - for example like this: form > div > input It's a question of direct parent, not ancestor. --

Re: [WSG] Validation error question for XHTML Strict

2005-05-05 Thread liorean
, "fieldset", "ins", > "del" start-tag > > I do not understand at all. Another way to say it: The element that wraps the input MUST be one of the above listed. Those are the only elements that allow input elments in their contents. You probably have yo

Re: [WSG] usage of new entities in dtd's

2005-04-07 Thread liorean
Strict document that no browser in common use handles due to their lack of SGML parsing. -- David "liorean" Andersson http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandar