Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.lang.javascript > #11885

Re: Mystical incantation of the day

Message-ID <1937453.aqSPkdTlGX@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Date 2012-02-18 09:56 +0100
Subject Re: Mystical incantation of the day
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
References <R4KdnYJKPoE1kqLSnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d@westnet.com.au> <E4-dnVkFt-Pw36LSnZ2dnUVZ8jadnZ2d@giganews.com>
Followup-To comp.lang.javascript

Followups directed to: comp.lang.javascript

Show all headers | View raw


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
-- 
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

Back to comp.lang.javascript | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

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

csiph-web