Re: Javascript commands

[Gordon Mueller <mud@gonzo.wolfenet.com>]

On a personal note...If its so insulting for you to help someone out 
who may have missed something basic in the docs, maybe you should 
ignore them and let someone else help them out in a more friendly 
way. This stuff is pretty new. If you dont like us newbies around, 
maybe you should start an Advanced Javascript group.



Seth D. Palmer wrote:
> 
> Recently, there have been a number of messages on this list requesting
> information about commands. As posted before, the URL for the latest
> Javascript documentation is
> http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/handbook/javascript/index.html
> and is part of the Netscape Handbook, easily accessible from the NS
> browser under the Help menu (windows) and under the Apple Guide menu
> (Mac) -- sorry I don't know where this menu item is located on other
> platforms; I hope it would be as intuitive.
> 
> Another Netscape URL which may be of assistance is the HTTP cookie
> specification which is
> http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

> 
> A utility to whack pages from a site might be a useful thing here. I
> whacked all of the documentation and do so whenever it's updated, just
> check the bottom of the introdcutory page for the date the documentation
> was upgraded. WebWhacker (Mac) accomplishes the task of whacking pages
> and I believe there is a similar utility available for Windows users.
> 
> On a personal note: asking if such and such a command exists befroe
> reading the documentation is insulting. In reply to a recent post, yes
> there is window.close in JS - had you read any of the documentation, you
> would have known that considering it's in the first two or three pages.
> 
> I hope these URLs will be helpful to people first getting started and
> that they RTFM.
> 
> The documentation isn't comprehensive and is far from complete, and
> that's what I thought this group would do, make up for those deficiencies
> - no sporn new ones.
> 
> SETH