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getMatches(str, exp)

I recently encountered two troubling bugs with jPaq’s String.prototype.indexOfPattern() function.  In order to fix it, I ended up exploring the powerful String.prototype.replace() function, exploiting the parameter passed into the callback function.  I already knew that the matched text and sub-groups were passed into the callback function.  The thing that I Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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No jPaq.openWindow() For Now

Up until today, I was interested in writing a more object oriented version of the native window.open() function.  Unfortunately, I found out that there are some major incompatibility issues between browsers.  Let’s take this example for instance: [sourcecode language=”js”] window.open(“http://google.com/”, “”, “left=100,screenX=100,top=100,screenY=100,height=400”); window.open(“http://google.com/”, “”, “left=100,screenX=100,top=100,screenY=100,width=400”); [/sourcecode] As you may have Read more…

By Chris West, ago