JavaScript

2013-04-26 Leave a comment? Go to comments(0)

Well, JavaScript is Turing-complete, so we’re safe using it for any browser-related issue we may face, aren’t we?

I would fairly disagree, as driven by powerful frameworks JavaScript is used also for implementations that are meantime within the domains of CSS3 and HTML5. So I use JavaScript basically to

  • change styles on events not supported by CSS (e.g. “click”). JavaScript representations of the CSS attributes differ from their native CSS names if they contain a hyphen as JavaScript always interprets it as a minus symbol (so you need a CSS to JavaScript style mapping legend) or apply the rule “remove the hyphen and camel case”
  • handle AJAX requests and responses
  • manage browser windows and links

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