I never liked jsLint... tries to enforce some overzealous conventions. I've seen some comments on JSHint. Haven't tried it, but it looks nice, lets you decide your coding standard.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On 11-04-12 08:50 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Awesome. It seems to work well in FF4. Now we just need to tack on a > jsLint button :) (Although we would have to get an exception to their > "good not evil" licensing clause!) > > Ryan Kaldari > > On 4/12/11 5:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: >> While pondering some directions for rapid prototyping of new UI stuff, I >> found myself lamenting the difficulty of editing JS and CSS code for >> user/site scripts and gadgets: >> >> * lots of little things to separately click and edit for gadgets >> * no syntax highlighting in the edit box >> * no indication of obvious syntax errors, leading to frequent edit->preview >> cycles (especially if you have to turn the gadget back off to edit >> successfully!) >> * no automatic indentation! >> * can't use the tab key >> >> Naturally, I thought it might be wise to start doing something about it. >> I've made a small gadget script which hooks into editing of JS and CSS >> pages, and embeds the ACE code editor (http://ace.ajax.org -- a component of >> the Cloud9 IDE, formerly Skywriter formerly Mozilla Bespin). This doesn't >> fix the usability issues in Special:Gadgets, but it's a heck of a lot more >> pleasant to edit the gadget's JS and CSS once you get there. :) >> >> The gadget is available on www.mediawiki.org on the 'Gadgets' tab of >> preferences. Note that I'm currently loading the ACE JavaScript from >> toolserver.org, so you may see a mixed-mode content warning if you're >> editing via secure.wikimedia.org. (Probably an easy fix.) >> >> Go try it out! http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CodeEditor.js >> >> IE 8 kind of explodes and I haven't had a chance to test IE9 yet, but it >> seems pretty consistently nice on current Firefox and Chrome and (barring >> some cut-n-paste troubles) Opera. >> >> I'd really love to be able to use more content-specific editing tools like >> this, and using Gadgets is a good way to make this sort of tool available >> for testing in a real environment -- especially once we devise some ways to >> share gadgets across all sites more easily. I'll be similarly Gadget-izing >> the SVG-Edit widget that I've previously done as an extension so folks can >> play with it while it's still experimental, but we'll want to integrate them >> better as time goes on. >> >> -- brion -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
