Tagged Questions
JavaScript is the original and common name applied towards most flavors of a scripting language that originated on NetScape Navigator. Use this tag for questions regarding common implementations of ECMAScript, JavaScript, JScript, etc. JS does not typically refer to its ECMA-cousin, ActionScript.
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Advanced JavaScript design patterns [closed]
I'm looking for books, online resources or suggestions about how to structure big projects or build a framework in JavaScript.
I'm not looking for books explaining how inheritance or closures work. ...
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Is Test Driven Development in Javascript helpful for front-end developers?
I really need your advice. I'm reading a few articles about TDD in JavaScript but I'm really struggling to understand how to use it in my daily work. For instance I'm currently working on a page that ...
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Can JavaScript be used as a general scripting language?
I've used JavaScript and some frameworks (jQuery, Prototype, some node.js) for client-side web programming, but never on the desktop, where I do most of my scripting work in either Python or Bash.
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How to name a private method in a language which doesn't support privacy?
What's the coding standard for naming a private method in a language which does not have the private modifier? Specifically, I am talking about Javascript. Below I've placed an underscore at the end ...
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How can I simulate clicks for a mobile browser?
I am creating a web app. I was testing it on a mobile browser and noticed that :active pseudo class doesn't really work. How should I simulate clicks for a mobile browser? I'm specifically interested ...
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HTML 5 Double-Helix/DNA
What would be the most cross browser friendly (IE9, Chrome, FF, Safari, Opera) way to code an animated, interactive double-helix?
HTML 5/JavaScript is fine. Flash or Java is not.
I am unsure if ...
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1answer
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Interactive training site for Javascript complete with code challenges [closed]
A few months ago I discovered a cool site called Rails for Zombies. This is a great site that allows us to write code and see the results. It takes us through the paces to get us up to speed with ...
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Is there any point in writing JavaScript plugins in any other framework besides jQuery? [closed]
I looked on Alexa today to see comparative site rankings between known JavaScript frameworks. Its not even close. Its not even on the same plain of existence. jQuery has so clearly crushed everything ...
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Advice on learning node.js [closed]
please advice, how do you think I should start node programming with JavaScript or CoffeeScript and why?
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Are super methods in JavaScript limited to functional inheritance, as per Crockford's book?
In Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts", he walks through three types of inheritance: classical, prototypal, and functional. In the part on functional inheritance he writes:
"The ...
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Multiple dropdown select with jquery and mysql [migrated]
I'm building a search function in PHP and jQuery. I have 3 dropdowns that are loaded from a MySQLdatabase. When a user selects 1 of the dropdowns it has to affect the other dropdown values.
I made ...
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Is there a open source solution for pushing realtime notifications to the browsers? [closed]
Is there a ready-made solution that would require no or little code to be written to be able to push realtime notifications to my web application (in javascript) and also maintain history of the ...
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Easiest way to create static HTML file with sortable and filterable table?
I want to create a static HTML file I can email to someone with a lot of data, and have that data sortable and filterable. What is the easiest to use library or package I can use to get this off the ...
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What to call pure JavaScript standalone (web)apps for which I've not written any server side code?
I've been writing a few tools as standalone webapps for which I have written no server side code and it strikes me that I'm not sure what people call such things.
I like them because they can be ...
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JavaScript a good more complex examples [closed]
I don't know much about real JavaScript except some really minor things like using some JQuery, reading JavaScript Good Parts book, but what I would really need is some application that I could dig ...
