[Info-vax] [OT] The wonders of Javascript...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-02, Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/2015 4:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> Good point. A better description would be an undefined variable error.
>>
>
> A SSCCE is always good but your moaning implies a couple of lines posted 
> here could reproduce it?
>
> While Javascript certainly has its share of issues I (and a big slice of 
> the development world) love it!!! And the debugging available today on 
> FireFox, Chrome, Opera and even IE is soooo good you'd have to be pretty 
> damn thick to not trap a simple bug such as you suggest. Sure 
> phone/mobile emulation is not quite there yet but is getting better 
> every release. And turning CSS attributes on/off at will - outstanding.
>

First off, Javascript development is still a new area for me.

Second, when developing a Firefox addon, and are debugging the Javascript
code driving the addon, you have access to the cfx log and the Firefox
Error Console log. Neither of these showed what the problem was but it
didn't take me too long to work out what was going on.

> Tell you what, why don't you get VSI to bring out DECForms 3. People 
> like you and Phillip and Brian long for the good ol' DECWindows days, 
> why not an IFDL capable browser??? Remember those wondrous debugging 
> capabilities? "You are on the left side of the equation." :-(
>

Please don't bundle me in with Phillip. :-)

In case you haven't been paying attention, I'm the one wanting all the
new DCL/filesystem/other features which would bring VMS up to a level
comparable to other environments.

Oh, and the last time I used a GUI browser _on_ VMS was over a decade
ago and I only use Lynx _very_ rarely for some quick network/system
availability testing.

Simon.

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