Xah Web Dev Blog Archive 2017-12

massive upgrade my js tutorial to js es2015.

here's 5 pages for end of the year day.

• Replace All Children, createDocumentFragment
• String.prototype
• String Object
• String.prototype.constructor
• RegExp Syntax

massive updates to JavaScript tutorial. Here's 5 of them today.

• RegExp Tutorial
• RegExp.prototype.exec
• Convert String, Number
• Function Declaration vs Function Expression
• Function Parameters

arguments Object (updated)

global variable (on its own page)

var Name Scope (more updates)

var Declaration Order (Name Hoisting) (major rewrite)

minor updates:

• JavaScript Object Reference
• Object Object
• Array.prototype
• Array.prototype.concat

svg length complexity

got ill after reading this.

one of the most useful, is a percentage, which means relative to view port. So, 0.2% is a nice value. This way, lines are just the right thickness in 5 inch screen or 24 inch screen.

But, that 0.2% has different meanings depending on where you use it. example: in

vs

The meaning of percentage unit in css depends on which attribute it is used. But since stroke-width is svg only, i suppose in this case, both use of percentage have the same meaning.

Source Code Encoding (minor update)

Xah JavaScript Style Guide for Functional Programers (minor update)

Mozilla Secretly Install Ad-Ware to Firefox

one sad news after another.

[Firefox is on a slippery slope 2017-12-16 By Drew Devault. At https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html ]

SVG, and an Insider's Look at W3C Standardization Process

[Me and SVG 2017-04-19 By Amelia Bellamy-Royds. At https://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/post/me-and-svg ]

what a fantastic article!

truly informative, on svg, and the standard process, the innards, and situation of tech industry!

SVG 2 is dead

looks like SVG 2 is dead. it will not be implemented. Right now, Firefox support maybe 20% of its features. Chrome maybe 10%. Safari, Edge, 0.

svg2 feature support https://nikosandronikos.github.io/svg2-info/svg2-feature-support/

here's w3c's naming of their standard progress

1. Working draft
2. Candidate recommendation
3. Proposed recommendation
4. W3C recommendation

usually take years to go from one to the next.

jargon ridden bureaucratic shit.

Note also, now we have 2 html standards, from whatwg and from w3c. each declare theirs is the standard.

Note also, now we have 2 html standards, from whatwg and from w3c. Each declare theirs is the standard. most hackers don't know, it's all politics. This is partly why, “standards” are often complex and incomprehensible. it's that way not because tech necessity.

Web Design: Grey Text on White Background. Solarize Color Disease (updated. now macOS)

SVG: Animation

a sketchy intro on the state of svg animation.

learn web animation in 3 minutes.

Web Animation

Turn Off JavaScript in Firefox, Without Addon

You can now temporarily turn off JavaScript in Firefox (version quantum, as of 2017-12-07)

however, it doesn't work as a temp toggle. That is, if you have js off, and just want to turn it on for a tab, this method doesn't work.

If JavaScript is disabled, svg animation (the “animation” tag) won't work. ( this is firefox, as of 2017-12-07 ) But CSS animation still does.

Object.prototype.toString (minor update)

JavaScript Basics (major update. Now, ES2015 based)

Ask Xah, emacs, JavaScript, keyboard, 2017-12-01 at https://www.patreon.com/posts/15656041