Updated FAQ

[Garrett Smith]

* Dates:
| Year 0000 is unrecognized by some formats (XML Schema, xs:date).
- Baagoe

* 4.1 How do I format a Date object with javascript?
- Stockton, Mincha, others
(This will be revisited for extended years.)

* msdn2 links changed to msdn links (no redirect)
- Talbot
* doctype - HTML 4.01 strict
- Talbot

* Meta information:
<meta name="DCTERMS.language" scheme="RFC1766" content="en">
<meta name="DC.format" content="text/html">
<meta name="DC.type" content="Text">
<meta name="DC.publisher" content="Garrett Smith">
<meta name="DCTERMS.modified" content="2009-10-27">
<meta name="DC.description"
content="Javascript Frequently Asked Questions">
<meta name="DC.source"
content="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm">
<meta name="DC.source" content="<meta name="DC.source"
content="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript">
<meta name="DC.source" content="http://msdn.microsoft.com/">
- Talbot, Lahn, G Smith

* Posting guilelines:
"Remove everything that does not contribute to the problem (images,
superfluous markup, other scripts, etc)."
- Talbot, Lahn, Stockton, Cornford, G. Smith

* corrections to markup (extra "</p>" before </li>
- Talbot

* Posting code:
Removed: "If the code is more than about 300 lines, provide a link
instead." because nobody objected to my suggestion of removing it.
- G Smith

 

[Garrett Smith]

Garrett Smith wrote:

[snip]
Forgot a few:

* I have <a href="javascript:somefunction()"> what ... ?
Added Cornford's example

* Posting code:
# Mention the platforms, browsers, and versions.
- Harris, Talbot

* How to Ask a Question
Removed "Read recent relevant posts in c.l.js."

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

* Meta information:

You are too fast for me. I was going to comment on your reply later,
probably on the weekend.


PointedEars

 

[Garrett Smith]

You are too fast for me. I was going to comment on your reply later,
probably on the weekend.

Please do.

It's funny. Quiet for a while, then suddenly, a rush of FAQ feedback.

 

[Garrett Smith]

You are too fast for me. I was going to comment on your reply later,
probably on the weekend.

So how does the META information look?

 

[Osmo Saarikumpu]

Garrett Smith kirjoitti:

So how does the [faq] META information look?

Is there a reason for two DCTERMS.language? One with and the other
without the scheme attribute?

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

So how does the META information look?

Looks a bit hard to read (why not use newlines to help with the review?),
otherwise good. But see my other comments in
<and the followup.

DCTERMS.language is a duplicate, indeed. (Maybe newlines would help to see
more duplicates.)


PointedEars

 

[Garrett Smith]

Garrett Smith kirjoitti:

So how does the [faq] META information look?

Is there a reason for two DCTERMS.language? One with and the other
without the scheme attribute?

No, that was a mistake. Corrected locally as:
<meta name="DCTERMS.language" scheme="RFC1766" content="en">

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected]
september.org>, Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:24:22, Garrett Smith

* Posting code:
Removed: "If the code is more than about 300 lines, provide a link
instead." because nobody objected to my suggestion of removing it.

It should be restored.