Until today, JavaScript comes with a function-level scope for variables and functions. This quirk often trips beginners who are already familiar with other...
0 replies - 1628 views - 06/02/13 by Ariya Hidayat in Articles
In JavaScript, one aspect of creating a function inside a method is difficult to get right: how to handle the special variable this.
ECMAScript.next will...
0 replies - 2770 views - 06/01/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
ECMAscript, 6th edition might bring us fat arrow notation – Douglas Crockford on fat arrowsfunction (x) {
return x * x;
}
// becomes
(x) =>...
0 replies - 9756 views - 04/02/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles
This post describes a JavaScript implementation of enums, enumerations of symbols. The idea originally comes from Allen Wirfs-Brock, via a thread on the...
0 replies - 3144 views - 10/24/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
On September 18, 2011, Brendan Eich held a talk at CapitolJS.
In it, he covered more details on what will be in ECMAScript.next; how
to react to the...
0 replies - 3375 views - 09/26/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
CoffeeScript, node.js, ECMAScript, and even Google's new Dart usurper language were topics of discussion last week when I had the unique opportunity to meet...
3 replies - 13075 views - 09/13/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
ECMAScript is a language working as an umbrella for JavaScript, Internet Explorer's JScript and Flash ActionScript. Innovation in browsers today is coming from...
0 replies - 4628 views - 09/08/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Although constructor functions are a conceptually useful method for defining classes in JavaScript, there is an alternative way to new for creating objects....
0 replies - 3122 views - 05/12/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Surprising announcements and competitive sparring made the Web 2.0 Expo's browser discussion panel very interesting and revealing. While Mozilla's Brendan...
0 replies - 2737 views - 05/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
After ten years with no major revision, the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) general assembly recently approved the ECMA-262 5th edition...
0 replies - 4445 views - 12/07/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The development of ECMAScript 4 is moving into an important phase: the implementors are making good on their word and are starting to implement the...
0 replies - 1602 views - 02/27/08 by John Resig in News
