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Entries Tagged as 'Object-Oriented'

Chasing super

December 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · SoftwareDev

A lot of discussion around object-oriented Javascript involves finding cunning methods to get a super reference. This is sometimes a reference to the super class, the super instance, or the super version of the current method. The latest installment in an Ajaxian posting this week on work by Erik Arvidsson. It makes for an interesting [...]

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Reading Open-Source Code

September 8th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Links, SoftwareDev

Dave Crane looks into some Scriptaculous code. The main point is that Scriptaculous is easy for novice JS programmers to use, but the source code would be difficult, for novices at least, to understand. Which raises these questions:

So, going back to the bigger picture, here’s something for the authors of JavaScript libraries to [...]

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