Comments on: JavaScript Gotchas

By: Mike Czepiel

Mike Czepiel — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:57:26 +0000

Granted you may lose some flexibility but it may be easier and arguably more concise to just use a foreach loop.

Though that obviously doesn’t help you if you do need to determine the length, chances are it eliminates you ever caring about the length in a lot of instances.

By: Dominic Mitchell

Dominic Mitchell — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:20:40 +0000

Eric: Thanks for the kind words. I’ll try and stick a trackback in. And yes, thank you for the great subtitle.

Mathieu: Yes, that would have worked. But it’s not the “common idiom”, so it would have just tripped up somebody else later on…

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:13:23 +0000

Wow—it makes sense that this would happen in IE (that is, it’s consistent with what we know of IE’s behavior), and yet I’d never have thought of it on my own. Fun! If you could trackback to my post, that would be cool, since it would help tie all these scattered bits of information together. If it doesn’t work for some reason, let me know and I’ll stick in a link.

And, hey, your site’s subtitle seems awfully familiar…

By: Mathieu 'p01' HENRI

Mathieu 'p01' HENRI — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:22:00 +0000

That’s why I prefer the following syntax:

for( var i=0,currentHeader; currentHeader=headers[i]; i++ )
{
// here be some amazing code
}