Yes, JSHint looks more reasonable, although it inherits the same "good 
not evil" license-cruft. Sigh.

Ryan Kaldari

On 4/12/11 9:20 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
> I never liked jsLint... tries to enforce some overzealous conventions.
> I've seen some comments on JSHint. Haven't tried it, but it looks nice,
> lets you decide your coding standard.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>
> On 11-04-12 08:50 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
>> Awesome. It seems to work well in FF4. Now we just need to tack on a
>> jsLint button :) (Although we would have to get an exception to their
>> "good not evil" licensing clause!)
>>
>> Ryan Kaldari
>>
>> On 4/12/11 5:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>>> While pondering some directions for rapid prototyping of new UI stuff, I
>>> found myself lamenting the difficulty of editing JS and CSS code for
>>> user/site scripts and gadgets:
>>>
>>> * lots of little things to separately click and edit for gadgets
>>> * no syntax highlighting in the edit box
>>> * no indication of obvious syntax errors, leading to frequent edit->preview
>>> cycles (especially if you have to turn the gadget back off to edit
>>> successfully!)
>>> * no automatic indentation!
>>> * can't use the tab key
>>>
>>> Naturally, I thought it might be wise to start doing something about it.
>>> I've made a small gadget script which hooks into editing of JS and CSS
>>> pages, and embeds the ACE code editor (http://ace.ajax.org -- a component of
>>> the Cloud9 IDE, formerly Skywriter formerly Mozilla Bespin). This doesn't
>>> fix the usability issues in Special:Gadgets, but it's a heck of a lot more
>>> pleasant to edit the gadget's JS and CSS once you get there. :)
>>>
>>> The gadget is available on www.mediawiki.org on the 'Gadgets' tab of
>>> preferences. Note that I'm currently loading the ACE JavaScript from
>>> toolserver.org, so you may see a mixed-mode content warning if you're
>>> editing via secure.wikimedia.org. (Probably an easy fix.)
>>>
>>> Go try it out! http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CodeEditor.js
>>>
>>> IE 8 kind of explodes and I haven't had a chance to test IE9 yet, but it
>>> seems pretty consistently nice on current Firefox and Chrome and (barring
>>> some cut-n-paste troubles) Opera.
>>>
>>> I'd really love to be able to use more content-specific editing tools like
>>> this, and using Gadgets is a good way to make this sort of tool available
>>> for testing in a real environment -- especially once we devise some ways to
>>> share gadgets across all sites more easily. I'll be similarly Gadget-izing
>>> the SVG-Edit widget that I've previously done as an extension so folks can
>>> play with it while it's still experimental, but we'll want to integrate them
>>> better as time goes on.
>>>
>>> -- brion

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