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css length unit gone crazy.
JavaScript import export from 2015 (aka ECMAScript), is the worst shit possible.
- Idiotic default vs named to appease the status quo.
- One Complicated Mini language.
- One thousand different syntax to do the same thing to appease the industrial coders. (the way of the committee design.)
JavaScript coders, are the late milen gen and zoomer, aka the brogramers, is the beginning brainlessness. The npm and stackoverlow, are the virus that eats their brain. (and with ruby coders, and later python coders too.)
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- Computer Science Went Awry.
- Web Dev History.
- 15 years ago.
- YouTube using invalid html.
- and the reign of macromedia flash.
- good thing about blogging is that you document history.
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CSS style sheet. Started to use verticle left brackt for block quote.
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- JavaScript Books Review 2023
- JavaScript The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan. 2011, 2020.
- JavaScript the Good Parts, Douglas Crockford. 2008
- JavaScript the Better Parts, by Douglas Crockford. 2018
- Node.js Creator Ryan Dahl on Software Complexity. 2011
- History of Node.js by Ryan Dahl 2011 📺
- Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 2012, by Nicholas C Zakas
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- for coders. functional programing.
- it is unfortunate, that the javascript committee did not pass the pipe syntax.
- lots resistance from the industrial coding dolts.
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- for coders. webdev.
- very annoying, there is no way to determine what font is actually used, by JavaScript.
- unless you are using webfonts.
all new.
- JS: Iterator.prototype.map
- JS: Iterator.prototype.forEach
- JS: Iterator.prototype.filter
- JS: Iterator.prototype.reduce
- JS: Iterator.prototype.take
- JS: Iterator.prototype.drop
- JS: Iterator.prototype.every
- JS: Iterator.prototype.some
- JS: Iterator.prototype.find
- JS: Iterator.prototype.flatMap
- JS: Iterator.prototype.toArray
updated.
Terminology, iterator interface or iterator protocol
- For Coders. Advanced JavaScript.
- Terminology, iterator interface Or iterator protocol?
- The ECMAScript calls it interface.
tail call optimization is still not done
- For Coders. JavaScript.
- This is insulting.
- After 10 years in the spec, tail call optimization is still not done?
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- For coders. Advanced JavaScript.
- You should never use the __proto__ property.
- Instead, use Reflect.getPrototypeOf or Reflect.setPrototypeOf.
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updated.
major update on ECMAScript news. still working on.
minor updates.
updates.
misc updates
- JS: Number
- JS: RegExp Flag
- JS: Array.prototype.join (to string)
- JS: Object.fromEntries (Iterable to Object)
- JS: Convert Decimal, Hexadecimal
- JS: Convert Decimal, Binary
- JS: Number.prototype.toString (Number to String)
- JS: Number.parseInt (String to Number)
- JS: Number.parseFloat (String to Number)
- JS: JSON.stringify
added example for map.
lots updates
- JS: Array.prototype.concat
- JS: Array.prototype.entries
- JS: Array.prototype.join (to string)
- JS: Array.prototype.keys
- JS: Array.prototype.reduce
- JS: Array.prototype.reduceRight
- JS: Array.prototype.slice
- JS: Array.prototype.splice
- JS: Array.prototype.toSpliced
- JS: Array How-To
- JS: Range Function for Array 📜
- JS: String.prototype.matchAll
- JS: String.prototype.lastIndexOf
- JS: String.prototype.indexOf
- JS: String.prototype.includes
- JS: Set.prototype.values
- JS: Set.prototype.keys
- JS: Map.prototype.values
- JS: Set.prototype.entries
- JS: Map.prototype.keys
JavaScript Complexity
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- coding js is like riding on a highway with a thousand potholes.
- ur brain is tied to the potholes.
- the final code, is functional but incomprehensible.
JavaScript abstract class
- fuck javascript, now becoming exceeding complex.
- now it sports abstract class, like java.
- so coding js now is pure rote, like the unix fucks.
- fuck js, and the industry coding dolts n elite hacker idiots.
JavaScript set-like object
- faaking complete idiotic javascript.
- now they have a set-like object.
- array-like is not confusing enough.
new.
updates and new articles
update and new pages
added Table of Contents
updates
updates
major update on class.
misc updates
added complete table of contents
- for coders. weddev.
- this is marquee done with css animation.
- it is actually not easy to do.
- hard to make the marquee stay within a box.
- you will need to create margins with opaue background color to hide the text before they move into the marquee area.
- for coders.
- Ancient marquee element.
- Firefox stopped supporting it.
- Invented by Microsoft around 1998.
- An era of free for all of inventing tags to lock-in users.
- Begian by Firefox mozilla netscape skum's blink.
- HTML: Marquee, Scrolling Text
updates
- CSS has taken a life of its own.
- Here's some old tech, updated.
- Position, lets you fix a box to window, or to a parent element, or adjust position.
- It also lets you create a layer, so you can use it to creat raining effect with JavaScript, or tooltips annotation.
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examples
best way to adjust HTML position
transform: translate(0px, -6px);- CSS: Transform
- CSS Image Rollover.
- Ancient tech. from late 1990s.
- It was a mystery on how it works till i started to learn CSS in 2005.
- CSS: Image Rollover
- The glorious history of CSS.
- CSS1 vs CSS2.
- year 2005, fresh news, fashionable, you need to know.
- CSS1 and CSS2 Differences
- the nasty thing apple introduced to html
- HTML: Viewport Meta Tag
- https://x.com/xah_lee/status/1914825957770453244
- Massive update in past days on CSS.
- AKA Cascading Style Sheet.
- the tutorial for mathematicians.
- 125 pages syntax color scheme changed, and much update.
- one rarely known css fact is that the meaning of percentage value depend on which element it is used on.
- CSS: Percentage Value
major rework of the nav panel
event delegation
- for real rocket scientists, on advanced web dev, JavaScript, DOM.
- yesterday, switched to use event delegation for my unicode pages for tooltips aka balloon or hover popup.
- event delegation, so called, is most useful, when u have lots items on a page that needs event.
- but actually, even few hundred items having hover and mouse events, is not a problem at all.
- but here's more tech detail. for advanced experts.
- when u have elements that need say mouse hover event.
- and these element are added dynamically.
- u need a way to add event when new are there.
- it's a problem.
- even html collection is live object, but it doesn't auto add event.
- this is why, u use event delegation.
- example of this is this page
- Unicode Search 🔎
- when you search, lots new items are in result.
- you need to add event handler for each.
- but impossible unless you use some kinda change detection lib.
- this problem is solved, by simply put the event to body, and in event handler function, just check if right element is hit.
- JavaScript, one of the worst programing language.
- And one worste part is its date method.
- Exceedingly complex.
- Immerse and savor it.
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- JS: Array.prototype.flat
- JS: Deep Copy Array or Object 📜
- JS: Convert Map to Object 📜
- JS: Factorial 📜
- JS: Format Number
- JS: Function Pipe 📜
- JS: Test If Object is Iterable or Iterator 📜
- JS: Test is Object Type 📜
- JS: Test Equality of Map Objects 📜
- JS: Map Filter 📜
- JS: Swap Key Value of Map 📜
- JS: Sort Map 📜
- JS: Map Substract 📜
- JS: Truncate Map 📜
- JS: Convert Object to Map 📜
- JS: Add Method to Prototype
- JS: Random Array Element, Randomize Array 📜
- JS: Range Function for Array 📜
- JS: Swap Object Key Value 📜
- JS: Set Union, Intersection, Difference 📜
- JS: Split Array 📜
- JS: Count Chars in String 📜
- JS: Test Equality of Array and Object by Content 📜
- JS DOM: textContent, innerHTML, innerText, nodeValue
- JS: Char to UTF-16 Encoding 📜
- JS: Char to UTF-8 Encoding 📜
- SVG: Circle Arc
- CSS: Computed Style
- JS: Difference of Array vs Array-Like Object
- JS: class (keyword)
- JS: Use Object.create to Emulate Constructor