JavaScript is crying out for a way to write functions more tersely. I’ve added my suggestion to the debate, and was vaguely aware that Mozilla had implemented “function expressions”. It wasn’t until I saw their use in the (excellent) ProtoVis examples that I realized how stomach-churningly bad the syntax for them is. Instead of dropping [...]
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What’s All This Then?
I'm Alex Russell, a web developer working on Chrome, Chrome Frame, and the broader web platform at Google. I'm guilty of many JavaScript transgressions.
My goal is to make the web suck less and to the extent that I can keep politics and economics from creeping in, that's what this blog is about.
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