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⚠️ Warning: this is an old article and may include information that’s out of date. ⚠️ You’re probably used to typical variables names such as the following: 1 var personName = "Joe"; You may not realize it, but there are some non-alphanumeric variables…

⚠️ Warning: this is an old article and may include information that’s out of date. ⚠️ Passing data is quite important in functional programming languages like JavaScript.

⚠️ Warning: this is an old article and may include information that’s out of date. ⚠️ Introduction As the application you’re coding becomes more and more complex, there’s more of an opportunity for things to go wrong in all sorts of unforseen ways.

As it turns out, IEMobile 6/7 (and presumably anything earlier) doesn’t support classes and ids that are attached to the HTML element.

⚠️ Warning: this is an old article and may include information that’s out of date. ⚠️ Introduction One of the things that’s always been confusing to me is that there are multiple ways to declare variables in JavaScript, and some ways are better than other…

JavaScript has functional scope.

class Singleton { private static $instance; public static function getInstance() { if(!

The skinny: here’s a neat little trick to reduce the amount of code users have to type to instantiate objects: function jQuery(str, con){ if ( window == this ) return new jQuery(str, con); // ... } new jQuery("#foo"); // this is now equivalent... jQue…

UPDATE: I found that the problem is actually that inline-block is completely unsupported in this version of IE Mobile, and is likely also unsupported in IE Mobile 7, which is also based on IE4.