Re: closure bindings

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Date	2011-10-14 23:34 +0200
Subject	Re: closure bindings
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
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dhtml wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
>> > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> >> BTW, how do you pass a *scope* to a method?
>> > - pass "this" from the global scope to get a reference to it
>>
>> `this' has nothing to do with scope.
>>
> The global scope is also the global object.

Well, no.

> In ES5, they call global scope as "global environment".  (10.2.3 The
> Global Environment)

That's correct, and quite a different thing.
 
> [...]
>> Presumably we can see yet another result of cluelessness on part of the
>> writers here.
>
> Yes, we've seen "scope" used like this before and it exists that way
> in Dojo, last I checked.

Figures.
 
>> Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
>> a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
>> when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
>> computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
> 
> This mistake keeps recurring. I call it social insanity. It happened
> with "Safari HTML5" a few back, and now with Google Chrome.

The beauty of it is that most of the time you can use Webkit CSS so that it 
degrades gracefully.  But apparently the same people that are challenged by 
providing accessible websites that use client-side scripting are also 
challenged by this.  Tell news ;-)


PointedEars
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Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

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