Jiri Znamenacek [pirat@anime.cz]

JavaScript&DOM Factory - version 0.91

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Features

• Provide an easy and handy lookup for properties of objects in JavaScript for loaded document and the same functionality for DOM objects.
• Names of properties are clickable and colour-differentiated so navigation is intuitive and easy.
• Properties can be highlighted (also links to appropriate references are provided).
• Found objects can be easy added (by click) for another lookup.
• Dislayed output can be filtered in various ways.
• Simple DOM 'debugger' for testing DOM in loaded document.
• Simple JavaScript 'debugger' for evaluating JavaScript expressions 'on the fly'.

Version info

• 3.1.2001 - bug "dictionary for DOMdebugger opens outside of screen" was fixed, minor changes in "preferences" and tutorial
• 14.12.2000 - initial version

Requirements and Limitations

Requirements on browser are very high - support for JavaScript at the level of ECMAScript - 3rd edition, very good support for DOM1 and CSS1. Therefore this application probably works properly only with Gecko powered browsers (such as Mozilla or Netscape6) and InternetExplorer5.5.
Tested with Mozilla (post M18), Netscape6 and InternetExplorer5.5.

Credits

Alan Plewka for design

Known Issues

• Mozilla
• thanks to some strange display bug I had to implement some workarounds to force browser to redisplay page; however menus still won't be displayed properly
• Internet Explorer
• thanks to unbelievable DOM bug ("objects in page atfer IFRAME are not found") and some minor differences (and also some bugs in Mozilla) own source codes for this browser exists
• global
• I don't know about any easy (if any) way of lookuping object's functions, thus only properties of object are found.
• No lookup for event object properties at this moment.
• No keybord shortcuts at this moment. (I guess at least ESC would be handful...)
• (complete list of issues, known bugs...)

Contributors welcomed

I will appreciate your feedback very much (mail to Jiri.Znamenacek@systinet.com, please). Thank you in advance.

Zvon

This reference has been developed for Zvon, where you can find other not only XML related materials (both basic and advanced tutorials about XSLT, XML, DTD, Mozilla, CSS, regular expressions, ...)

Download

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