Douglas Crockford's JavaScript Encyclopedia

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44 points·pajtai··12 comments

A great resource. But I was put off by the preponderance of "Blah" in the entries.

I guess you could say those entries are the less good parts.

Well, both 'Browser' and 'CSS' appendices are just 'blah'. And 'Further Reading' just goes 404.

For the avoidance of confusion, I was just making a (fairly weak) joke in reference to Crockford's famous "JavaScript: The Good Parts" book.

The "blah" bits are obviously just placeholders - I'm sure there's no value judgment associated with them!

This was published so he can get community help with finishing it: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/encyclopedia/preface.htm...

I don't think it's worth the effort writing another section on regex, just link to https://regex101.com/ or http://www.regexr.com/ a cheatsheet and call it done.

"An array is a sequence of values. Each value is given an ordinal number.

Blah."

Why the "blah"?

I think Douglas never got around to writing those sections, or maybe he thought they were self-explanatory. Who knows?

(In summary, it's a started work but not finished, and he's hoping people will step in to help him finish it).

I do wonder how useful this going to prove, given Mozilla's already excellent reference material (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...).

Given the request for contribution, converting to markdown and sourcing on github would probably be prudent. Blah.

JavaScript is a trademark of Oracle Corporation?