Articles tagged: JavaScript
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- Archive/Mozilla/JavaScript_crypto Mozilla defines a special JavaScript object to allow web pages access to certain ...
- Archive/Mozilla/SpiderMonkey/Coding_conventions The SpiderMonkey project owners enforce coding conventions pretty strictly during code reviews.
- Archive/Mozilla/SpiderMonkey/File_object Non-Standard Server-Side Object
- Archive/Mozilla/Tamarin Categories
- Archive/Mozilla/Venkman Venkman is the code name for Mozilla's JavaScript Debugger. It aims to provide a powerful ...
- Archive/Mozilla/XTech_2005_Presentations/Mozilla_E4X "ECMAScript for XML" (ECMA-357), a new standard for writing and processing XML directly in ...
- Archive/Web/E4X ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is a programming language extension that adds native XML support to ...
- Archive/Web/E4X/Processing_XML_with_E4X First introduced in JavaScript 1.6, E4X introduces a native XML object to the JavaScript language, ...
- Archive/Web/E4X_tutorial This tutorial walks you through the basic syntax of E4X (EcmaScript for XML). With E4X, programmers ...
- Archive/Web/E4X_tutorial/Introduction With E4X enabled, basic XML elements are valid syntax for variables. For instance
- Archive/Web/LiveConnect/LiveConnect_Overview This chapter describes using LiveConnect technology to let Java and JavaScript code communicate ...
- Archive/Web/Old_Proxy_API Proxies are objects for which the programmer has to define the semantics in JavaScript. The default ...
- Archive/Web/Scope_Cheatsheet JavaScript with Mozilla extensions has both function-scoped var s and block-scoped let s. Along ...
- Archive/Web/Server-Side_JavaScript Here's a radical idea: Use one language to write entire Web apps -- the same language which ...
- Archive/Web/Server-Side_JavaScript/Walkthrough by Davey Waterson, JavaScript Architect, Aptana
- Archive/Web/Sharp_variables_in_JavaScript A sharp variable is a syntax in object initializers that allows serialization of objects that have ...
- Debugging_JavaScript This document is intended to help developers writing JavaScript code in Mozilla, mainly for Mozilla ...
- Differential_inheritance_in_JavaScript Differential Inheritance is a common prototype-oriented model that uses the concept that most ...
- ECMAScript_DontEnum_attribute ECMAScript 3 has an internal attribute called DontEnum. This attribute is attached to certain ...
- Error_Console The Error Console is a tool available in most Mozilla-based applications that is used for reporting ...
- Exception_logging_in_JavaScript In versions of Firefox prior to Firefox 3, all JavaScript exceptions were always logged into the ...
- Games/Anatomy I want to be clear that any of the above, or none of them, could be best for your game. The correct ...
- Games/Techniques/2D_collision_detection One of the simpler forms of collision detection is between two rectangles that are axis aligned — ...
- Games/Techniques/Async_scripts Every medium or large game should compile asm.js code as part of an async script to give the ...
- Games/Techniques/Efficient_animation_for_web_games This article covers techniques and advice for creating efficient animation for web games, with a ...
- Games/Tools/asm.js Asm.js is a specification defining a subset of JavaScript that is highly optimizable. This article ...
- Games/Workflows This page contains articles that highlight different workflows for effectively creating different ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser In this step-by-step tutorial we create a simple mobile MDN Breakout game written in JavaScript, ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Animations_and_tweens To make the game look more juicy and alive we can use animations and tweens. This will result in a ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Bounce_off_the_walls Now that physics have been introduced, we can start implementing collision detection into the game ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Build_the_brick_field Building the brick field is a little bit more complicated than adding a single object to the ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Buttons Instead of starting the game right away we can leave that decision to the player by adding a Start ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Collision_detection Now onto the next challenge — the collision detection between the ball and the bricks. Luckily ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Extra_lives We can make the game enjoyable for longer by adding lives. The player can continue playing until ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Game_over To make the game more interesting we can introduce the ability to lose — if you don't hit the ball ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Initialize_the_framework Before we can start writing the game's functionality, we need to create a basic structure to render ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Load_the_assets_and_print_them_on_screen Our game will feature a ball rolling around the screen, bouncing off a paddle, and destroying ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Move_the_ball We have our blue ball printed on screen, but it's doing nothing — It would be cool to make it move ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Physics For proper collision detection between objects in our game we will need to have physics, this ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Player_paddle_and_controls We have the ball moving and bouncing off the walls, but it quickly gets boring — there's no ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Randomizing_gameplay You've finished all the lessons — congratulations! By this point you would have learnt the basics ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Scaling Scaling refers to have the game canvas will scale on different screen sizes. We can make the game ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/The_score Having a score can also make the game more interesting — you can try to beat your own highscore, or ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Win_the_game Implementing winning in our game is quite easy: if you happen to destroy all the bricks, then you ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript In this step-by-step tutorial we create a simple MDN Breakout game written entirely in pure ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Build_the_brick_field After modifying the gameplay mechanics,We are now able to lose — this is great as it means the game ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Collision_detection We have the bricks appearing on the screen already, But the game still isn't that interesting as ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Create_the_Canvas_and_draw_on_it Before we can start writing the game's functionality, we need to create a basic structure to render ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Finishing_up There's always a room for improvements in any game we write. For example, we can offer more than ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Game_over It's fun to watch the ball bouncing off the walls and be able to move the paddle around, but other ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Mouse_controls The game itself is actually finished, so let's work on polishing it up. We have already added ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Move_the_ball You already know how to draw a ball from working through the previous article, so now let's make it ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Paddle_and_keyboard_controls The ball is bouncing off the walls freely and you can watch it indefinitely, but currently there's ...
- Games/Workflows/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Track_the_score_and_win Destroying the bricks is really cool, but to be even more awesome the game could award points for ...
- Glossary/Argument An argument is a value (primitive or object) passed as input to a function.
- Glossary/array An array is an ordered collection of data (either primitive or object). Based on its place in the ...
- Glossary/Block/Scripting In JavaScript, a block is a collection of related statements enclosed in braces ("{}"). For ...
- Glossary/Boolean In computer science, a boolean is a logical data type that can have only the values true or false.
- Glossary/Canvas The HTML canvas element provides an empty graphic zone on which specific JavaScript APIs can draw ...
- Glossary/Compile_time The compile time is the time from when the program is first loaded until the program is parsed.
- Glossary/Control_flow The control flow is the order in which the computer executes statements in a script.
- Glossary/Expando Expando properties are properties added to DOM nodes with JavaScript but not part of the object's ...
- Glossary/Falsy A falsy value is a value that translates to false when evaluated in a Boolean context.
- Glossary/Function A function is a code snippet that can be called by other code or by itself, or a variable that ...
- Glossary/Hoisting In JavaScript, functions and variables are hoisted. Hoisting is JavaScript's behavior of moving ...
- Glossary/IIFE IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression) is a JavaScript function executed as soon as it is ...
- Glossary/Instance An object created by a constructor is an instance of that constructor.
- Glossary/JavaScript JavaScript (JS) is a programming language mostly used client-side to dynamically script webpages, ...
- Glossary/Node.js Node.js is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that allows developers to build ...
- Glossary/Number In JavaScript, Number is a numeric data type in the double-precision 64-bit floating point format ...
- Glossary/Parameter A parameter is a named variable passed into a function. Parameter variables are used to import ...
- Glossary/Primitive A primitive (primitive value, primitive data type) is data that is not an object and has no ...
- Glossary/Signature/Function A function signature (or type signature, or method signature) defines input and output of functions ...
- Glossary/SIMD SIMD (pronounced "seem-dee") is short for Single Instruction/Multiple Data which is one ...
- Glossary/Symbol A Symbol is a primitive data type whose instances are unique and immutable. In some programming ...
- Glossary/Three_js three.js is a JavaScript -based WebGL engine that can run GPU-powered games and other ...
- Glossary/Truthy In JavaScript, a truthy value is a value that translates to true when evaluated in a Boolean ...
- Glossary/Type Type is a characteristic of a value affecting which operations on that value are valid. For ...
- Glossary/UTF-8 UTF-8 (UCS Transformation Format 8) is the World Wide Web's most common character encoding. Each ...
- Glossary/Variable A variable is a named location for storing a value. That way an unpredictable value can be accessed ...
- International_characters_in_XUL_JavaScript Gecko 1.8, as used in Firefox 1.5 and other applications, added support for non-ASCII characters in ...
- JavaScript_Presentations
- JavaScript_Tips
- Leak_Monitor Leak Monitor is a Firefox extension by L. David Baron that helps extension and chrome developers to ...
- Learn/Discover_browser_developer_tools The devtools live inside your browser in a subwindow that looks roughly like this:
- Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/JavaScript_basics JavaScript is a full-fledged dynamic programming language that, when applied to an HTML document, ...
- Learn/HTML/Howto/Use_JavaScript_within_a_webpage JavaScript is a programming language mostly used client-side to make webpages interactive. You can ...
- Learn/JavaScript JavaScript is a major Web technology that provides interactivity and special effects to webpages.
- MDN/Doc_status/JavaScript See also localization status of this section.
- Mozilla/Add-ons/Code_snippets/JS_XPCOM Here are a few useful snippets of code for dealing with XPCOM components in JavaScript.
- Mozilla/Add-ons/Code_snippets/Rosetta By default, the only possible standardized scripting language for HTML is ECMAScript. Hence, if you ...
- Mozilla/Add-ons/Code_snippets/StringView As web applications become more and more powerful, adding features such as audio and video ...
- Mozilla/Add-ons/Code_snippets/Timers/Daemons In computer science a daemon is a task that runs as a background process, rather than being under ...
- Mozilla/Add-ons/Overlay_Extensions/XUL_School/JavaScript_Object_Management In this section we'll look into how to handle JavaScript data effectively, beginning with chrome ...
- Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/1.5 Based on the Gecko 1.8 engine, Firefox 1.5 improved its already best in class standards support, ...
- Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/1.5/Using_Firefox_1.5_caching Firefox 1.5 uses in-memory caching for entire Web pages, including their JavaScript states, for a ...
- Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.5 Firefox 3.5 introduces a number of new features, as well as additional and improved support for a ...
- Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.6 Firefox 3.6 offers support for new and developing web standards, increased performance, and an ...
- Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/4 Firefox 4, which shipped on March 22, 2011, enhances performance, adds more support for HTML5 and ...