Re: IE and named function expressions

From	Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: IE and named function expressions
Date	2011-10-19 16:13 -0700
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On Oct 19, 7:56 pm, Dr J R Stockton wrote:

 > [dhtml wrote:]
 >
 > > [...] The FAQ is on Github:
 > > https://github.com/hij1nx/dhtmlkitchen/tree/master/dhtmlkitchen
 >
 > > The FAQ should be an independent project on Github.
 > > That way others can fork, modify, and issue pull
 > > requests. Anyone's free to create an FAQ project for
 > > this NG and if and when dhtmlkitchen goes back up, web
 > > version of the FAQ (not the text version, which is for
 > > news) can go there.
 >
 > A newsgroup FAQ should be the edited work of the regulars
 > of the newsgroup.  It must not be open to editing by
 > anyone who wants to play. It should be shown, regularly,
 > in the newsgroup either as a whole or in part.

Yep. This doesn't preclude Github.

 > The FAQ text must be readily and directly accessible for
 > reading by the ignorant and inexperienced.  The URL that
 > you gave does not provide that.

True. But using the information here

    http://pages.github.com/

would make it properly accessible (I think; I've not tried
it personally). If this can be practicably used for the FAQ
then I think it would be more appealing than a privately
hosted version.

 > [...]

 > A FAQ for JavaScript such as you describe can be started
 > at Github, whatever that is, but it cannot there be a CLJ
 > newsgroup FAQ.

Why? If you mean solely having the FAQ reside in a version
control system, then sure, but Github does more than that.

 > Can you give an example URL for a FAQ of a computing
 > language (not JavaScript or jQuery, etc.) at Github - the
 > readers' URL, nothing to do with editing?

http://defunkt.github.com/resque

Not a FAQ, but that doesn't matter. --Antony

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IE and named function expressions RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-17 18:30 -0700
  Re: IE and named function expressions RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-17 18:44 -0700
    Re: IE and named function expressions dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-17 21:23 -0700
      Re: IE and named function expressions Matt McDonald <matt@fortybelow.ca> - 2011-10-17 22:50 -0600
        Re: IE and named function expressions dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-17 23:33 -0700
          Re: IE and named function expressions Dr J R Stockton <reply1142@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-19 19:56 +0100
            Re: IE and named function expressions Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 16:13 -0700
  Re: IE and named function expressions dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-17 21:21 -0700

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