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| From | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> |
| Reply-To | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <cljs@PointedEars.de> |
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Richard Cornford wrote:
> oPlugin = {
> ...
> Browser: {
> Explorer:!!(navigator.appName=='Microsoft Internet Explorer'),
> Other: !!!(navigator.appName=='Microsoft Internet Explorer'),
> Chrome: !!(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome')>-1)
> },
> ...
> }
>
> It is that middle - Other - property definition that really demonstrates
> someone doing something with a serious misconception of why they are
> doing it.
It is the needless double negation of an intrinsically boolean value in the
`Explorer:' line that shows me the cluelessness of the author already.
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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Mystical incantation of the day RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-02-18 12:40 +1000
Re: Mystical incantation of the day "Richard Cornford" <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 06:17 +0000
Re: Mystical incantation of the day Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-18 09:56 +0100
Re: Mystical incantation of the day "Richard Cornford" <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 15:36 +0000
Re: Mystical incantation of the day Asen Bozhilov <asen.bozhilov@gmail.com> - 2012-02-18 01:30 -0800
Re: Mystical incantation of the day "Richard Cornford" <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 15:37 +0000
Re: Mystical incantation of the day Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-18 11:32 +0100
Re: Mystical incantation of the day insin <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com> - 2012-02-18 04:21 -0800
Re: Mystical incantation of the day "Richard Cornford" <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 15:36 +0000
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