Re: Adobe Flex for MV GUI

"Tony Gravagno" <address.is.in.posts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Rob Tweed wrote:
Now about that container thing... If you're doing a popup in a
browser, the way JS tells that container to perform that operation is
with a call to a high level object called Window, and a method on that
object called Alert. Thus,
Window.Alert("foo");

Unless you have a D3-inspired case-insensitive version of JS, that should
be:
window.alert("foo"), no? It don't work no good on my IE.

However, for reference, alert() is not a part of any
specification, it's just an accepted, common, supported feature for
all browsers. Again, it's not a part of the language. The language
is acting upon a feature exposed by the container.

Let me re-parse that. It's an accepted and commonly supported function of
the language when used within a browser, but not a feature of the language
which runs in that browser. Yup. Got it.

// "prompt" is another built-in JS/DOM function

built-in FUNCTION! oops (vide last para), I thought you said it was a
'feature exposed by the container". So built-in is the same as "commonly
exposed"...or not? Or am I instantiating a dirty old man feature?

;) chandru

Tony Gravagno
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