Tag: es5

My Latest developerWorks Article is Live: ECMA-262, 5th Edition

Posted on by Rob Larsen

ECMA-262, 5th Edition. The standard published under the dry title ECMA-262, 5th Edition hereafter referred to as ES5, is the latest version of the ECMAScript specification. ECMAScript is the standard upon which JavaScript—the single most important language on the web today—is built. Because the language also serves as the basis for Adobe ActionScript in addition […]

Check Out My IBM DeveloperWorks Article on Sandboxed Natives, Fusebox, and FuseJS

Posted on by Rob Larsen

Summary: The concept of sandboxed natives, which are native JavaScript objects safely enhanced outside of the global namespace, has been circulating for several years. With Fusebox, we have a new, elegant approach to sandboxed natives—one that serves as the foundation for a new library, FuseJS. Read the rest: Sandboxed natives, Fusebox, and FuseJS.