This blog post mentions three rules that are commonly given for using var statements. And then tells you when you can break them. To make things easier to understand, I somewhat disparagingly call the rules “conventional wisdom” and breaking the rules “unconventional wisdom”. But I will also explain why the rules have been created in the first place.
This blog post gives an overview of the 2ality posts on the next version of ECMAScript, ECMAScript 6 (code-named ECMAScript.next). All of those posts have the label esnext. Consult the sitemap for a list of all guides.
This blog post examines how the prototype chain of an object affects assignments to its properties. It provides a more detailed look than the previous, more comprehensive, blog post “Properties in JavaScript: definition versus assignment”.
[This post is part of a series on the special property __proto__]
The text “__proto__” can still break webapps if it appears somewhere in the content, as I was reminded of today, via Domenic Denicola and Peter van der Zee.
One marked difference between current tablets is the aspect ratio of their displays. This blog post explores the pros and cons of the different aspect ratios, along with the question whether one of them is best overall.