FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

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The Official ECMAScript Specification

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm

ISO/IEC 16262: ISO Standard of ECMA-262 r3 with Corrections

http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c033835_ISO_IEC_16262_2002(E).zip

ECMAScript on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

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DOM Level 1 ECMAScript Binding

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1...e-binding.html

DOM Level 2 ECMAScript Binding

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTM...t-binding.html

DOM Level 2 Events

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html

DOM Level 2 Style

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style/

DOM Level 3 ECMAScript Binding

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Cor...t-binding.html

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Mozilla JavaScript 1.5 reference

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript

Online Gecko DOM Reference

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Gecko_DOM_Reference

(download)

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref.zip

Microsoft (D)HTML Reference

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533050.aspx

JScript Reference and Main Microsoft Script Site

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hbxc2t98.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx

Opera Documentation

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#ecmascript

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/js/

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/js/ecma

ICab's Inscript documentation

http://www.muchsoft.com/inscript/

Safari JavaScriptCore documentation

(nothing)

Netscape 4 JavaScript (reproduced by Sun Microsystems, Inc.)

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/

Index of Archived Netscape 4 JavaScript docs online and for download

http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/

Archived documentation for MSIE 3.x

http://members.tripod.com/%7Ehousten/download/

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jQuery [English]

http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en

Prototype & Scriptaculous

http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous

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Developing Dashboard Widgets

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html

Win32 Scripting, Using Scripting to Automate Windows

http://cwashington.netreach.net/

Whitebeam Apache Module - Server Side JavaScript in Apache;

http://www.whitebeam.org/

Digital Mars DMD Script, console and MS Active Script implementation of ECMAScript,
claimed to be faster than other implementations :

http://www.digitalmars.com/dscript/

FESI - a free implementation of ECMAScript in Java

http://www.lugrin.ch/fesi/index.html

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Javascript FAQ site

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53/


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Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

In comp.lang.javas cript message <48ed3b7b$0$902 66$14726298@new s.sunsite.
dk>, Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:00:02, FAQ server <javascript@dot internet.be>
posted:

>Javascript FAQ site
>
>http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53/

Does anyone actually think that one is worth mentioning? And, if and
"FAQ" sites are mentioned, they ought to be among the best.

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Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

Dr J R Stockton wrote:

In comp.lang.javas cript message <48ed3b7b$0$902 66$14726298@new s.sunsite.
dk>, Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:00:02, FAQ server <javascript@dot internet.be>
posted:

>Javascript FAQ site
>>
>http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53/

>
Does anyone actually think that one is worth mentioning?

Tooltip ads are annoying.

The site says that all questions updated on April 4th 2008. A lot of the
questions look old, like NS4.x. I doubt that date is correct.

I'm going to remove it.

Garrett

[David Mark]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

On Oct 8, 7:00 pm, "FAQ server" <javascr...@dot internet.bewrot e:

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>
The Official ECMAScript Specification
>

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm

>
  ISO/IEC 16262: ISO Standard of ECMA-262 r3 with Corrections
>
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/Public...s/c033835_ISO_...
>
ECMAScript on Wikipedia
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

>
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>
DOM Level 1 ECMAScript Binding
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1...e-binding.html
>
DOM Level 2 ECMAScript Binding
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTM...t-binding.html
>
DOM Level 2 Events
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html
>
DOM Level 2 Style
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style/
>
DOM Level 3 ECMAScript Binding
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Cor...t-binding.html
>
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>
Mozilla JavaScript 1.5 reference
>

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript

>
Online Gecko DOM Reference
>

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Gecko_DOM_Reference

>
(download)
>

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref.zip

>
Microsoft (D)HTML Reference
>
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533050.aspx
>
JScript Reference and Main Microsoft Script Site
>
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hbxc2t98.aspx
>
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx
>
Opera Documentation
>

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#ecmascript

>

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/js/

>

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/js/ecma

>
ICab's Inscript documentation
>

http://www.muchsoft.com/inscript/

>
Safari JavaScriptCore documentation
>
(nothing)
>
Netscape 4 JavaScript (reproduced by Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
>

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/

>
Index of Archived Netscape 4 JavaScript docs online and for download
>
http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/libr...vascript/1.3/r...
>
Archived documentation for MSIE 3.x
>

http://members.tripod.com/%7Ehousten/download/

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>
jQuery [English]
>

http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en

>
Prototype & Scriptaculous
>
http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous

These should be removed (or moved to another section.) These are not
JavaScript resources, but links to discussions that revolve around two
very sub-standard scripts. Lumping them in with the ECMAScript specs
and the Mozilla site is just wrong.

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>
Developing Dashboard Widgets
>

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html

>
Win32 Scripting, Using Scripting to Automate Windows
>

http://cwashington.netreach.net/

>
Whitebeam Apache Module - Server Side JavaScript in Apache;
>

http://www.whitebeam.org/

>
Digital Mars DMD Script, console and MS Active Script implementation of ECMAScript,
claimed to be faster than other implementations :
>

http://www.digitalmars.com/dscript/

>
FESI - a free implementation of ECMAScript in Java
>

http://www.lugrin.ch/fesi/index.html

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>
Javascript FAQ site
>
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53/
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[dhtml]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

David Mark wrote:

On Oct 8, 7:00 pm, "FAQ server" <javascr...@dot internet.bewrot e:

>>
>jQuery [English]
>>
>http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en
>>
>Prototype & Scriptaculous
>>
>http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous

>
These should be removed (or moved to another section.) These are not
JavaScript resources, but links to discussions that revolve around two
very sub-standard scripts. Lumping them in with the ECMAScript specs
and the Mozilla site is just wrong.
>

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The reasoning behind adding those is that usage of javascript library is
frequently asked, if not the poster's subject itself. I am planning on
including some text there along the lines of:

<p>
The following javascript libraries not endorsed by this group. If you
are looking for help using a library, visit that library's discussion
group.
</p>
[list]

<p>
Discussion of how the library works is on topic for discussion.
</p>

Unfortunately I have to change the XML and the scripts that process them
so that I can have that.

A lot of the time the poster doesn't ask about the library itself, but
may post up code that looks like jQuery or mention jQuery and Prototype
in the message. It stands to reason that they're looking for help in the
wrong place.

Garrett

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

dhtml wrote:

Dr J R Stockton wrote:

>[...] FAQ server [...] posted:

>>Javascript FAQ site
>>>
>>http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53/

>Does anyone actually think that one is worth mentioning?

>
Tooltip ads are annoying.

Yes, but people have to make a living.

The site says that all questions updated on April 4th 2008. A lot of the
questions look old, like NS4.x.

So what? Most frequently asked questions and most good answers to them are
rather old. For example, I can't even remember when I read the SOP question
first -- seems like ages ago.

I doubt that date is correct.

The date is completely irrelevant as long it does contain good answers.

I'm going to remove it.

I'd rather you wouldn't. It contains a number of useful FAQ entries,
especially those from Martin Honnen about cross-browser scripting
(DOM, XHR, MSXML etc.)


PointedEars
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

dhtml wrote:

David Mark wrote:

>"FAQ server" wrote:

>>jQuery [English]
>>>
>>http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en
>>>
>>Prototype & Scriptaculous
>>>
>>http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous

>These should be removed (or moved to another section.) These are not
>JavaScript resources, but links to discussions that revolve around two
>very sub-standard scripts. Lumping them in with the ECMAScript specs
>and the Mozilla site is just wrong.

>
The reasoning behind adding those is that usage of javascript library is
frequently asked, if not the poster's subject itself. I am planning on
including some text there along the lines of:
>
<pThe following javascript libraries not endorsed by this group.

Since there are followers of those here (if misguided ones), that statement
would be incorrect.

If you are looking for help using a library, visit that library's
discussion group. </p>

I would consider that bad advice in two regards. First, it is _not_ that
the mentioned libraries are *libraries* that cause the trouble with them
here, but that they are *sub-standard* libraries, which is a rather polite
way of putting it (I prefer to call them "junk" instead). Second, it turns
out that the "discussion groups" for the library are but an example of blind
leading the blind -- how can any good advice come from there?

A lot of the time the poster doesn't ask about the library itself, but
may post up code that looks like jQuery or mention jQuery and Prototype
in the message. It stands to reason that they're looking for help in the
wrong place.

NAK. IMO they have come to the right place but they do not know it yet --
the place where they ought to be told that they are misguided, that they
have been deceived, and why (if brief) instead of just being sent away.
That way one can at least hope for the junk to disappear one day. It would
still cause noise (it'll do that anyway, those people just don't read FAQs
before posting), but I could live with it.


PointedEars
--
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(This won't prevent people from viewing your source, but no one
will want to steal it.)
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[dhtml]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

dhtml wrote:

>David Mark wrote:

>>"FAQ server" wrote:
>>>jQuery [English]
>>>>
>>>http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en
>>>>
>>>Prototype & Scriptaculous
>>>>
>>>http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous
>>These should be removed (or moved to another section.) These are not
>>JavaScript resources, but links to discussions that revolve around two
>>very sub-standard scripts. Lumping them in with the ECMAScript specs
>>and the Mozilla site is just wrong.

>The reasoning behind adding those is that usage of javascript library is
> frequently asked, if not the poster's subject itself. I am planning on
>including some text there along the lines of:
>>
><pThe following javascript libraries not endorsed by this group.

>
Since there are followers of those here (if misguided ones), that statement
would be incorrect.
>

There may be individuals who support any number of things. Following and
endorsing are different things.

This is a good place to discuss the design of jQuery, not how to use
jQuery.

>If you are looking for help using a library, visit that library's
>discussion group. </p>

>
I would consider that bad advice in two regards. First, it is _not_ that
the mentioned libraries are *libraries* that cause the trouble with them
here, but that they are *sub-standard* libraries, which is a rather polite
way of putting it (I prefer to call them "junk" instead). Second, it turns
out that the "discussion groups" for the library are but an example of blind
leading the blind -- how can any good advice come from there?
>

>A lot of the time the poster doesn't ask about the library itself, but
>may post up code that looks like jQuery or mention jQuery and Prototype
>in the message. It stands to reason that they're looking for help in the
>wrong place.

>
NAK. IMO they have come to the right place but they do not know it yet --
the place where they ought to be told that they are misguided, that they
have been deceived, and why (if brief) instead of just being sent away.
That way one can at least hope for the junk to disappear one day. It would
still cause noise (it'll do that anyway, those people just don't read FAQs
before posting), but I could live with it.
>
>

It is true that those posters seem less likely to read the FAQ.

While there is value in learning javascript, not everyone wants that.

However, for posters who come here asking for nothing more than help
using jQuery, you recommend telling them that it is junk. But only
after they ask (which they frequently do) and not ahead of time.

Those who want to learn and discuss javascript have come to the right
place. CLJ appears to be fairly often mistaken for a place to ask
questions on how to make something work using jQuery. I think this is a
bad thing.

I might rather have something up at the top where it talks about what
CLJ is about.

This recent poster:
| But I am a non-Web programmer trying to get a prototype
| together /fast/ for a demo so there is not time to go to
| school on JS and JQuery is working for us.

- is not here to learn. He has stated his goals clearly and he clearly
has no intention of changing them.

However posts that discuss the merits, shortcomings and design, such as:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/5d5110a25cd79c2e?dmode=source

Are very on-topic.

Garrett

PointedEars

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

dhtml wrote:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

>dhtml wrote:

>><pThe following javascript libraries not endorsed by this group.

>Since there are followers of those here (if misguided ones), that statement
>would be incorrect.

>
There may be individuals who support any number of things. Following and
endorsing are different things.

You will find those people readily endorse what they follow because they
don't know what they are doing.

This is a good place to discuss the design of jQuery, not how to use
jQuery.

No argument there. However, it should be the place to tell people why it is
bad so that they might reconsider.

However, for posters who come here asking for nothing more than help
using jQuery, you recommend telling them that it is junk. But only
after they ask (which they frequently do) and not ahead of time.

I'd rather there were a section in the FAQ that explains (if brief) why I
tell them it's junk, that I can point them to, so as not to waste time
explaining it all over again. I have been considering to start a project
that does that by myself, however for the time being a FAQ entry would suffice.


PointedEars
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a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
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[Dr J R Stockton]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

In comp.lang.javas cript message <48EFE3D9.10002 00@PointedEars. de>, Sat,
11 Oct 2008 01:23:05, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@we b.de>
posted:

>
>I'd rather you wouldn't. It contains a number of useful FAQ entries,
>especially those from Martin Honnen about cross-browser scripting
>(DOM, XHR, MSXML etc.)

That is an inappropriate criterion. A leavening of Honnen is not of
itself sufficient to justify citing, as a FAQ reference, a site which
has as large a proportion of rubbish as my sampling has indicated.

Martin can always put that material somewhere with a higher average
standard.

aside : S/and/any/ in my first post in this thread.

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[dhtml]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

Dr J R Stockton wrote:

In comp.lang.javas cript message <48EFE3D9.10002 00@PointedEars. de>, Sat,
11 Oct 2008 01:23:05, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@we b.de>
posted:

>I'd rather you wouldn't. It contains a number of useful FAQ entries,
>especially those from Martin Honnen about cross-browser scripting
>(DOM, XHR, MSXML etc.)

>
That is an inappropriate criterion. A leavening of Honnen is not of
itself sufficient to justify citing, as a FAQ reference, a site which
has as large a proportion of rubbish as my sampling has indicated.
>

I agree.

I also believe that the date of April 4 2008 is wrong. Having a wrong
date is misleading. It makes the content seem current. It is stale.

Martin can always put that material somewhere with a higher average
standard.
>

Good questions and answers can be added to improve CLJ FAQ.

Garrett

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

Dr J R Stockton wrote:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn posted:

>I'd rather you wouldn't. It contains a number of useful FAQ entries,
>especially those from Martin Honnen about cross-browser scripting
>(DOM, XHR, MSXML etc.)

>
That is an inappropriate criterion. A leavening of Honnen is not of
itself sufficient to justify citing, as a FAQ reference, a site which
has as large a proportion of rubbish as my sampling has indicated.

As you could have noticed, I mentioned several articles of which only some
happened to be written by Martin Honnen as a reason not to exclude this FAQ
archive from being referred to by the c.l.js FAQ.

Martin can always put that material somewhere with a higher average
standard.

You are making the same fallacy that you have falsely accused me with.
Besides, yes he may write better stuff, but why waste good material just in
the hope that better might come? If we followed your reasoning, we could
get the c.l.js FAQ offline now because it could be done better.


PointedEars
--
Prototype.js was written by people who don't know javascript for people
who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not
the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript.
-- Richard Cornford, cljs, <f806at$ail$1$8 300dec7@news.de mon.co.uk>

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

dhtml wrote:

Dr J R Stockton wrote:

>Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn posted:

>>I'd rather you wouldn't. It contains a number of useful FAQ entries,
>>especially those from Martin Honnen about cross-browser scripting
>>(DOM, XHR, MSXML etc.)

>That is an inappropriate criterion. A leavening of Honnen is not of
>itself sufficient to justify citing, as a FAQ reference, a site which
>has as large a proportion of rubbish as my sampling has indicated.

>
I agree.

Then you are even more foolish that I thought.

I also believe that the date of April 4 2008 is wrong. Having a wrong
date is misleading. It makes the content seem current. It is stale.

You do not seem to understand that it does not matter for the quality of a
FAQ archive how old the answers it provides are, but how helpful they are.
And it is not (only) up to Dr J Stockton, arguably maybe knowledgable in the
matters discussed there, to make that assessment, but that of the people who
need to use this reference.

>Martin can always put that material somewhere with a higher average
>standard.

>
Good questions and answers can be added to improve CLJ FAQ.

Waste not, want not.


PointedEars
--
Prototype.js was written by people who don't know javascript for people
who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not
the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript.
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[dhtml]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

Dr J R Stockton wrote:

>Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn posted:

>>I'd rather you wouldn't. It contains a number of useful FAQ entries,
>>especially those from Martin Honnen about cross-browser scripting
>>(DOM, XHR, MSXML etc.)

>That is an inappropriate criterion. A leavening of Honnen is not of
>itself sufficient to justify citing, as a FAQ reference, a site which
>has as large a proportion of rubbish as my sampling has indicated.

>
As you could have noticed, I mentioned several articles of which only some
happened to be written by Martin Honnen as a reason not to exclude this FAQ
archive from being referred to by the c.l.js FAQ.
>

Lets take a look at the top 10 questions on that page. Link:
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53/


1. What is the difference between JavaScript, JScript and ECMAScript?
- Already answered on CLJ FAQ. The answer includes old link to ecma.ch
and spam link to http://www.nighthawks.co.in (not related!)

2. Where can I get a JavaScript interpreter?
- Anyone asking this question already knows enough about javascript.
Does not include information about other JS engines.

3. How can I send request back to the server after receiving a response
automatically without submitting my requesting page?
- Answer: Useless, possibly spam.

4. How to send data from servlet to javascript variables?
- Using an Applet might not be the best solution for that problem.

5. Clipboard item is not there after a close a window that was created
with open...write... IE only. Is there anything I can do ?
- Answer: I got this code from...[poorly authored, messy code]...No
guarantee of course, but it should work.

6. How do you change the margins and fonts just for printing.
- not a JavaScript question. Answer should include media attribute on
link.

7. How can we log user interactions on a web site using event handlers
and cookies? Refer to [link]
- Answer: use: http://www .theCounter.com/, then "Using a switch
statement in conjunction with a number of arrays with incrementing
counters, then saving the counters to a text file prepared on FrontPage
may be a good approach. I wont try it myself, mainly because I am too lazy"

8. Can firewalls/proxies be used to disable JavaScript? Where can I get
some information about that?
- Answer: Yes, firewalls and proxies can be configured to block
JavaScript. The proxy or firewall reads through the HTML and strips out
JavaScript code.

9. I need to pass a global variable javascript to html form. I have 4or5
variables but need to pass one.
- Anwser:

| I always put it into a hidden field with an onsubmit on the form:
| <script language=javasc ript>
| var myVar = 3
| ...
| </script>
|
| ...
|
| <form name=test action="catchin fo.html" --
| onsubmit="this. myvarfield.valu e=myVar;">
| <input type=text name=yourname>
| <input type=hidden name=myvarfield >
| </form>

Not a good example, but will work.

10. How can I get javascript to determine a browsers font setting and
alter it to whatever I choose so that my site is cross-browser/font size
compatible.

The barely literate example is followed by:-

| <script language="JavaS cript"><!--
| function screenres(){
| if (window.screen. width=='600') {
| location.href = '600.html'; }
| else {
| if (window.screen. width=='800')
| location.href = '800.html';
| else if (window.screen. width=='1024')
| location.href = '1024.html';
| else if (window.screen. width>'1024')
| location.href = 'other.html';
| }
| }
| //--></script>
|
| </head>
| <body onload="screenR es()">
|


These are not good answers.

Some answers look quite dated. "Netscape's JavaScript", has not been
current for at least 6 years but they're dated with a date of this year.

The site is super slow and has popup tooltip ads that get in the way of
getting the outdated information.

>Martin can always put that material somewhere with a higher average
>standard.

>
You are making the same fallacy that you have falsely accused me with.
Besides, yes he may write better stuff, but why waste good material just in
the hope that better might come? If we followed your reasoning, we could
get the c.l.js FAQ offline now because it could be done better.
>

What did I accuse you of?

>
PointedEars

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[dhtml]

Re: FAQ Topic - What online resources are available? (2008-10-09)

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

Dr J R Stockton wrote:

>Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn posted:

>>I'd rather you wouldn't. It contains a number of useful FAQ entries,
>>especially those from Martin Honnen about cross-browser scripting
>>(DOM, XHR, MSXML etc.)

>That is an inappropriate criterion. A leavening of Honnen is not of
>itself sufficient to justify citing, as a FAQ reference, a site which
>has as large a proportion of rubbish as my sampling has indicated.

>
As you could have noticed, I mentioned several articles of which only some
happened to be written by Martin Honnen as a reason not to exclude this FAQ
archive from being referred to by the c.l.js FAQ.
>

Lets take a look at the top 10 questions on that page. Link:
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53/


1. What is the difference between JavaScript, JScript and ECMAScript?
- Already answered on CLJ FAQ. The answer includes old link to ecma.ch
and spam link to http://www.nighthawks.co.in (not related!)

2. Where can I get a JavaScript interpreter?
- Anyone asking this question already knows enough about javascript.
Does not include information about other JS engines.

3. How can I send request back to the server after receiving a response
automatically without submitting my requesting page?
- Answer: Useless, possibly spam.

4. How to send data from servlet to javascript variables?
- Using an Applet might not be the best solution for that problem.

5. Clipboard item is not there after a close a window that was created
with open...write... IE only. Is there anything I can do ?
- Answer: I got this code from...[poorly authored, messy code]...No
guarantee of course, but it should work.

6. How do you change the margins and fonts just for printing.
- not a JavaScript question. Answer should include media attribute on
link.

7. How can we log user interactions on a web site using event handlers
and cookies? Refer to [link]
- Answer: use: http://www .theCounter.com/, then "Using a switch
statement in conjunction with a number of arrays with incrementing
counters, then saving the counters to a text file prepared on FrontPage
may be a good approach. I wont try it myself, mainly because I am too lazy"

8. Can firewalls/proxies be used to disable JavaScript? Where can I get
some information about that?
- Answer: Yes, firewalls and proxies can be configured to block
JavaScript. The proxy or firewall reads through the HTML and strips out
JavaScript code.

9. I need to pass a global variable javascript to html form. I have 4or5
variables but need to pass one.
- Anwser:

| I always put it into a hidden field with an onsubmit on the form:
| <script language=javasc ript>
| var myVar = 3
| ...
| </script>
|
| ...
|
| <form name=test action="catchin fo.html" --
| onsubmit="this. myvarfield.valu e=myVar;">
| <input type=text name=yourname>
| <input type=hidden name=myvarfield >
| </form>

Not a good example, but will work.

10. How can I get javascript to determine a browsers font setting and
alter it to whatever I choose so that my site is cross-browser/font size
compatible.

The barely literate example is followed by:-

| <script language="JavaS cript"><!--
| function screenres(){
| if (window.screen. width=='600') {
| location.href = '600.html'; }
| else {
| if (window.screen. width=='800')
| location.href = '800.html';
| else if (window.screen. width=='1024')
| location.href = '1024.html';
| else if (window.screen. width>'1024')
| location.href = 'other.html';
| }
| }
| //--></script>
|
| </head>
| <body onload="screenR es()">
|


These are not good answers.

Some answers look quite dated. "Netscape's JavaScript", has not been
current for at least 6 years but they're dated with a date of this year.

The site is super slow and has popup tooltip ads that get in the way of
getting the outdated information.

>Martin can always put that material somewhere with a higher average
>standard.

>
You are making the same fallacy that you have falsely accused me with.
Besides, yes he may write better stuff, but why waste good material just in
the hope that better might come? If we followed your reasoning, we could
get the c.l.js FAQ offline now because it could be done better.
>

What did I accuse you of?

>
PointedEars

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