Dr J R Stockton wrote:
In comp.lang.javas cript message <gc**********@r egistered.motza rella.org>
, Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:04:42, dhtml <dh**********@g mail.composted:
>Dr J R Stockton wrote:
>> Another category is those questions relating to ECMAScript/DOM
without
reference to anything visual or external :-
An 'Other' category?
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 is part of the DOM (document.cooki e). But then so are forms.
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.defaul tView,
document.getEle mentsByTagName, document.images , document.doctyp e,
document.referr er, document.URL, document.domain , document.create Event.
>
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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| o My element is named myselect[], how do I access it?
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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
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