[thelist] just in time javascript syntax checker

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 06:21:45 CDT 2005


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VOLKAN ÖZÇELİK wrote:
> Given that javascript is a loose-typed semi-object-oriented scripting
> language

Sounds like PHP4, yet we have Zend IDE and others.

> and its specs even alter from platform to platform  (JScript
> versus EcmaScript) imho it is either an impossible thing to do or it
> will take several years to complete it. Seems like writing eclipse
> from scratch and adding js-specific add-ons to it.

It's definitely a lot of work, the majority of which probably falls in
the hands of he who must aggregate and format all the documentation,
including notes about browser support in IE and Mozilla (at least),
for use with intellisense. Your other features are nontrivial as well,
especially those which have to keep track of typing.

> Do you wish to add anything else to this utopia ?

JSAN integration (http://openjsan.org/)


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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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