John Resig – ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties
ECMAScript 5 is on its way. Rising from the ashes of ECMAScript 4, which got scaled way back and became ECMAScript 3.1, which was then re-named ECMAScript 5
http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-objects-and-properties/
ECMAScript is finally there, read the whole post by John Resig (Creator of jQuery), and see the changes it brings to the JavaScript development, and the good news is that all major browser vendors agreed to implement this sooner than later. It has a detail description of how we will be accessing objects and it’s properties with some simple example code, to me this has opened a completely new era for JavaScript programming, though this specification brings real power to JavaScript which also comes with the cost of increased complexity, but as you know in any powerful language complexity is always there, it’s up to the developer how he/she can reduce the complexity but uses the full power of the language. Lastly, I [Continue... ]
Building a Better JavaScript Profiler with WebKit
Francisco Tolmasky has implemented cool hack/patch to webkit to solve the JavaScript Profilers displying “?” as the name of any anonymous functions, follow the link at the bottom of the post for the full story…
Here is the little excerpt from that article:
I had the pleasure of showing off some the cool new features we’ve been adding to the WebKit inspector at JSConf last week. It’s no secret that debugging basically sucks in JavaScript, and until recently, it was a little bit worse in Objective-J. Up until now we’ve focused mainly on adding stop gap measures to our own code, but recently we’ve decided to shift gears and attack the problem head on in the browsers themselves. This is why these past couple of weeks I’ve set aside the JavaScript code and instead focused on working with the great guys on the WebKit team on providing a solid debugging experience both [Continue... ]