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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.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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when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
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