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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
