Dr said:
I think that the idea of features related only to the manipulation of
ordinary variables deserves a subsection,
Ah, but what is ordinary?
and with a better title than
"Other", though I have no title suggestion. It would accommodate string
manipulation and maybe date/time, for example; also function grammar.
"Objects and Types" ?
+ "Numbers"
+ "Objects"
+ "Strings and Regexes"
+ "Dates"
The thinking behind having "Strings and Regexes" as one category is that
it's more task-oriented. How do I do [x] with a string?
5.13 How do I trim whitespace?
5.17 How do I make a 10 second delay?
5.20 My element is named myselect[], how do I access it?
That one seems like it belongs in 'Forms' section, to me.
Is such an element necessarily in a form? It should be next to 5.34, or
maybe merged.
It could be a form control in a form, an attribute, a form element. Most
of the time it will be a problem with a form control.
In PHP, elements with shared name would have to be named with a "[]", as
in "things[]". I don't know if they ever fixed that.
Cookies are not really part of the document; they do not show. The
headings must relate to naive user expectations, not to technicalities.
Many things in the DOM do not show, e.g. document.defaultView,
document.getElementsByTagName, document.images, document.doctype,
document.referrer, document.URL, document.domain, document.createEvent.
At present there is a 1:1 mapping between questions (as precedes Section
1) and answers (bodies in Sections 4 & 5). But sometimes quite
different questions have substantially similar answers. One could start
with a list of questions, each with a link (or more?) to the relevant
answers, those having subject lines describing their contents.
A question could lead to a specific answer within that section. It
might be the case that the answer links to another answer, which exists
in a different section.
Sub-subsections might seem like a good idea but would require change to
the XML and the scripts that process that to text and HTML. I would like
to avoid that, if possible.
What do you think of:
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| • Meta-FAQ meta-questions
| * Which newsgroups deal with javascript?
| * What questions are on-topic for CLJ?
| * What should I do before posting to CLJ?
| * Why was my post not answered?
| * Why do some posts have <FAQENTRY> in them?
| * How do I make a suggestion?
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| • Javascript Tips
| o What is ECMAScript?
| o What is JScript?
| o What are object models?
| o What is the document object model?
| o Internationalisation and Multinationalisation in javascript.
| o Where are the CLJ archives located?
| o What does the future hold for ECMAScript?
|
| • Javascript Resources
| o What books cover javascript?
| o What online resources are available?
|
| • Dates
| o How do I format the lastModified date with javascript?
| • Numbers
| o How do I convert a Number into a String with exactly 2 decimal
| places?
| o Why does simple decimal arithmetic give strange results?
| o Why does K = parseInt('09') set K to 0?
| o Why does 1+1 equal 11? or How do I convert a string to a number?
| o How do I generate a random integer from 1 to N?
| • Objects
| o When should I use eval?
| o How do I access a property of an object using a string?
| • Strings and RegExps
| o How do I trim whitespace?
|
| • DOM and Forms
| o How do I get the value of a form control?
| o My element is named myselect[], how do I access it?
| o Why doesn't the global variable "divId" always refer to the
| element with id="divId"?
| o Why are my rollovers so slow?
| o How do I disable the right mouse button?
| o How do I detect Opera/Netscape/IE?
| o How do I modify the content of the current page?
| o How can I see in javascript if a web browser accepts cookies?
|
| • Windows and Frames
| o How do I communicate between frames in a web browser?
| o Why does framename.print() not print the correct frame in IE?
| o How do I change print settings with window.print()?
| o I have window.status="Moomin"; why doesn't the statusbar
| change?
| o How can I disable the back button in a web browser?
| o How do I find the size of the window?
| o How do I change the text in the url/location bar?
| o How do I POST a form to a new window?
| o How do I change the confirm box to say yes/no or default to
| cancel?
| o Why do I get permission denied when accessing a frame/window?
| o How do I modify the content of the current page?
| o How do I prompt a "Save As" dialog for an accepted mime type?
| o How do I open a new window with javascript?
| o How do I check to see if a child window is open, before opening
| another?
| o How do I close a window and why does it not work on the first
| one?
| o How do I make a 10 second delay?
|
| • Ajax
| o What is Ajax?
| o Why is my Ajax page not updated properly when using an HTTP GET
| request in Internet Explorer?
| o How do I download a page to a variable?
| o How do I get a perl/asp/php variable into client-side
| javascript?
| o How do I log-out a user when they leave my site?
| o How do I run a server side script?
| o How do I force a reload from the server/prevent caching?
|
| • Debugging
| o How do I get my browser to report javascript errors?
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|
| • Things not to attempt in a browser
| o How can I prevent access to a web page by using javascript?
| o How do I protect my javascript code?
| o How can I access the client-side filesystem?
| o I have <a href="javascript:somefunction()"> what ... ?
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The server side is inflexible to creating subcategories. The XML would
have to change and so would the two scripts for processing (it used to
be three, but I refactored that). It would probably also mess up Bart's
daily posts.
So, in the interest of getting it done, I want a hierarchy no deeper
than two.
Garrett
