The introduction of strict mode aims to avoid common coding problems in ECMAScript applications. This is achieved with the presence of a lone string literal in a unit (script or function):
"use strict;"
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HtmlUnit - Welcome to HtmlUnit - 2 views
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HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less browser for Java programs". It models HTML documents and provides an API that allows you to invoke pages, fill out forms, click links, etc... just like you do in your "normal" browser. It has fairly good JavaScript support (which is constantly improving) and is able to work even with quite complex AJAX libraries, simulating either Firefox or Internet Explorer depending on the configuration you want to use. It is typically used for testing purposes or to retrieve information from web sites. HtmlUnit is not a generic unit testing framework. It is specifically a way to simulate a browser for testing purposes and is intended to be used within another testing framework such as JUnit or TestNG. Refer to the document "Getting Started with HtmlUnit" for an introduction. HtmlUnit is used as the underlying "browser" by different Open Source tools like Canoo WebTest, JWebUnit, WebDriver, JSFUnit, Celerity, ... HtmlUnit was originally written by Mike Bowler of Gargoyle Software and is released under the Apache 2 license. Since then, it has received many contributions from other developers, and would not be where it is today without their assistance.
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editease: jQuery CMS - 6 views
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A very simple jQuery CMS that can be configured and set up in around 2 minutes. Plugging in to your site is a breeze, and can be done at almost any time during the life cycle of development. Note: This is a very small CMS, with no database requirements. Ideal for small sites, or where only a small amount of 'content management' is required. If your site requires all content to be databased, there are many other CMS programs already in existence to choose from, so then maybe this is not the right solution. :)
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InfoQ: ECMAScript 5 released - 1 views
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for either the entire script (if at the top of the script) or for a single function (if the first part of a function).
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delete cannot be used against arguments, functions or variables or other properties with the configurable flag set to false
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Functions can no longer have duplicate arguments with the same name Objects can no longer have duplicate properties with the same name
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A new JSON object with parse and stringify to support efficient generation of JSON data; like eval but without the security implications of being able to reduce code
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Perfection kills » Understanding delete - 3 views
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All because it’s not possible to delete variables in Javascript. At least not when declared in such way.
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It’s almost as if Firebug follows some other rules of deletion. It is Firebug that has led Stoyan astray! So what is really going on here?
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we need to understand how delete operator works in Javascript: what exactly can and cannot be deleted and why.
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When a source text is treated as a Program, it is executed in a global scope, and is considered a Global code.
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Anything that’s executed directly within a function is, quite obviously, considered a Function code. In browsers, content of event attributes (e.g. <p onclick="...">) is usually parsed and treated as a Function code.
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text that’s supplied to a built-in eval function is parsed as Eval code. We will soon see why this type is special.
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And now that we know the difference between property assignment and variable declaration — latter one sets DontDelete, whereas former one doesn’t — it should be clear why undeclared assignment creates a deletable property:
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As you can see, execution contexts can logically form a stack. First there might be Global code with its own execution context; that code might call a function, with its own execution context; that function could call another function, and so on and so forth. Even if function is calling itself recursively, a new execition context is being entered with every invocation.
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Every execution context has a so-called Variable Object associated with it. Similarly to execution context, Variable object is an abstract entity, a mechanism to describe variable instantiation. Now, the interesing part is that variables and functions declared in a source text are actually added as properties of this Variable object.
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When control enters execution context for Global code, a Global object is used as a Variable object. This is precisely why variables or functions declared globally become properties of a Global object:
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The behavior is actually very similar: they become properties of Variable object. The only difference is that when in Function code, a Variable object is not a Global object, but a so-called Activation object. Activation object is created every time execution context for Function code is entered.
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and a special Arguments object (under arguments name). Note that Activation object is an internal mechanism and is never really accessible by program code.
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within Eval code are created as properties of calling context’s Variable object. Eval code simply uses Variable object of the execution context that it’s being called within:
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Execution context When ECMAScript code executes, it always happens within certain execution context.
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When declared variables and functions become properties of a Variable object — either Activation object (for Function code), or Global object (for Global code), these properties are created with DontDelete attribute. However, any explicit (or implicit) property assignment creates property without DontDelete attribute. And this is essentialy why we can delete some properties, but not others:
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Special arguments variable (or, as we know now, a property of Activation object) has DontDelete. length property of any function instance has DontDelete as well:
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Now that it’s clear what happens with variables (they become properties), the only remaining concept to understand is property attributes. Every property can have zero or more attributes from the following set — ReadOnly, DontEnum, DontDelete and Internal. These attributes serve as sort of flags — an attribute can either exist on a property or not. For the purposes of today’s discussion, we are only interested in DontDelete.
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This interesting eval behavior, coupled with another aspect of ECMAScript can technically allow us to delete non-deletable properties. The thing about function declarations is that they can overwrite same-named variables in the same execution context:
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Note how function declaration takes precedence and overwrites same-named variable (or, in other words, same property of Variable object). This is because function declarations are instantiated after variable declarations, and are allowed to overwrite them
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If we declare function via eval, that function should also replace that property’s attributes with its own. And since variables declared from within eval create properties without DontDelete, instantiating this new function should essentially remove existing DontDelete attribute from the property in question, making that property deletable (and of course changing its value to reference newly created function).
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Unfortunately, this kind of spoofing doesn’t work in any implementation I tried. I might be missing something here, or this behavior might simply be too obscure for implementors to pay attention to
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Not only is there an error, but created property appears to have DontDelete set on it, which of course it shouldn’t have:
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“The global variable object is implemented as a JScript object, and the global object is implemented by the host.
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Note how this and window seem to reference same object (if we can believe === operator), but Variable object (the one on which function is declared) is different from whatever this references.
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delete doesn’t differentiate between variables and properties (in fact, for delete, those are all References) and really only cares about DontDelete attribute (and property existence).
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Few restrictions are being introduced. SyntaxError is now thrown when expression in delete operator is a direct reference to a variable, function argument or function identifier. In addition, if property has internal [[Configurable]] == false, a TypeError is thrown: