There are a lot of people out there that no how to do file searches and Microsoft Word searches by using wildcard characters, but not as many people know how to work with regular expressions. That is the main reason why I added the RegExp.fromWildExp() function to jPaq. In addition, Read more…
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…
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…