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Stephen's JavaScript Blog February 2008 Archive

By Stephen Chapman, About.com Guide to JavaScript since 2004

Standard DOM

Sunday February 24, 2008
The JavaScript DOM has been standardised. All version 5+ browsers support the standard W3C Document Object Model to allow Javascript to communicate with the web page. The twenty fifth tutorial in ... Read More

Recursive Calls in JavaScript

Tuesday February 19, 2008
JavaScript functions can call themselves. Some tasks involve repetitive processes with a time delay between each iteration. Other tasks may have processed defined in a way where there are sub-tasks that ... Read More

String Processing

Sunday February 17, 2008
Mostly with JavaScript you will be working with text strings and Javascript provides plenty of ways to do what you need. The twenty first tutorial in the original "Learn JavaScript" series ... Read More

Prototype and script.aculo.us

Tuesday February 12, 2008
There are a number of frameworks that extend the functionality of JavaScript Prototype is one of the more popular frameworks for JavaScript which greatly extends what you can do with JavaScript ... Read More

Mathematical Functions

Sunday February 10, 2008
The Math object allows you access to all sorts of mathematical functionality in JavaScript. There will be occasions where you may want to perform some complex mathematical calculation on your web ... Read More

Date Last Modified

Saturday February 9, 2008
JavaScript can know when your web page was last updated. When you are looking at someone else's web page, have you ever wondered how up to date the information on the ... Read More

Returning Multiple Values

Friday February 8, 2008
Despite appearances JavaScript can return multiple values from a function A function only allows for one value to be returned when it finishes. How can you get around that limitation and ... Read More

Date and Time

Sunday February 3, 2008
JavaScript date manipulations are easy when you define them as dates In the nineteenth tutorial in the original "Learn Javascript" series we look at the Date object which JavaScript provides to ... Read More
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