“As it turns out, one of the things the new operator does behind the scenes when the object is created is to… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“You can extend your object at any time with new properties. To do this you just specify the new property and give… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“Well, say you write a handler and it requires a lot of computation — that is, something that takes a long time… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard that one”, thought Larry, knowing that spec-change-no-problem was a fantasy. “And” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“an important thing to know about JavaScript: there’s one queue and one “thread of control,” meaning there is only one of me… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“When you delete a property, you’re not just deleting the value of the property, you’re deleting the property itself. And, if you try to… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“when you assign a value to a variable name that hasn’t been previously declared, it is treated as a new, global variable. So be… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“Web Workers have a global function named importScripts that you can use to import one or more JavaScript files into your worker. To” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“If the two values have different types, try to convert them into the same type and then compare them” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“Well, it’s a browser policy, and it says you can’t retrieve data from a domain that is different from the domain the page itself… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“Math is not a constructor, or even a function. It’s an object. As you know, Math is a built-in object that you can use… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“When you pass zero to setTimeout, you’re asking JavaScript to run your timeout handler as soon as it possibly can — and this leads… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“JavaScript doesn’t have a character type. So characters are returned as new strings containing one character.” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“Lexical scope means that we can determine the scope of a variable by reading our code.” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“Q: Q: You said getElementsByTagName returns a list. Do you mean an array? A: A: It returns an object that you can treat like… — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
