Comments on: Global Domination

By: Hide your global objects with jQuery Secret plugin | DreamersLab

Hide your global objects with jQuery Secret plugin | DreamersLab — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:43:00 +0000

[...] your code with others. For more details please take a look at Douglas Crockford’s artical at Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog).To fix this we can wrap our code with a namespace. For example: someNamespace = { lang : 'en', [...]

By: JSLint – A Guide To JSLint Messages | James Wiseman

JSLint – A Guide To JSLint Messages | James Wiseman — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:59:21 +0000

[...] thing that is evi in JavaScriptl. So are global variables, as detailed in Douglas Crockford’s Global Domination [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:15:07 +0000

Hey, this is great when we get authorities like yahoo trend setting it helps us in getting our smaller and maybe more stubborn people to start to listen, thanks for the help!

By: Ask Satyam: Using YQL and YUI with YQLDataSource » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:16:33 +0000

[...] the number would be stored into variable result. Such a variable would be in the global scope, which is not a good idea. Even worse, although value would be retrievable once stored, we wouldn’t know when it [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:07:52 +0000

Any idea if it is faster or slower? I might be a little inpatient, just wondering, thanks guys.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:58:47 +0000

The code sections are brilliantly elegant. Does the shortcut method actually make it faster or slower?

By: Scope issues with the callback to JQuery’s animate() function « sometimes infinity is a loop

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:24:58 +0000

[...] call functions that are within the global namespace, and I try to avoid anything global for all the well-documented reasons. I thought about using call() to change the invocation context, but setTimeout.call(object) will [...]

By: Dr. Prolix » Blog Archive » Enliven your namespaces

Dr. Prolix » Blog Archive » Enliven your namespaces — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:10:19 +0000

[...] to use namespaces when writing your JavaScript. The reasons why have been stated time and again by much smarter and more eloquent people than myself, so suffice it to say, you should do [...]

By: Vayn技术网摘 » 窥探jQuery

Vayn技术网摘 » 窥探jQuery — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:45:38 +0000

[...] 编写可重用的、优秀的JavaScript代码，其关键在于对名称空间的积极把控。JavaScript只拥有单一的、全局的名称空间（即window对象），而很多程序员（以及一些库）恣意地为之添加各种东西。要知道全局变量是魔鬼！聪明的开发人员，会使用类似组件模式的技术，来尽力减少全局对象的数量。 [...]

By: timothy

timothy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:43:37 +0000

>>OK, but if I document it, then anyone can see it’s intentional:

Comments are not durable. I’ve known programmers who strip all comments upon opening a source file. The justification they give? “Comments are always wrong.” My translation of that is that code can be changed without changing the comments, so the comments don’t necessarily apply to the code that you see.

Making the code clear enough that it doesn’t need comments is the best way to go.