Tag: Browser Compatibility

Object JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 Code Preview

December 17, 2014

imageECMAScript 6 specification and implementation is underway and promises to bring many of the features that you’ve learned about in the posts on Object JavaScript.

This post gives you an idea of what the code looks like in ECMAScript 6. This post doesn’t cover ever feature. But you will learn about how ECMAScript 6 relates to:

  • Scope
  • Arrow Functions and Lexical this
  • Default Function Parameters
  • Classes
  • Inheritance
  • Modules
  • for-of
  • Arrow functions
  • Promises

I won’t come close to covering all the features. But you can get an idea of how ECMAScript 6 works to support the idea of Object JavaScript. Look to the references and to the specification for information about: Parameter handling, multiple return values, collections, destructuring, rest parameters & spread operator, iterators, array comprehension, and more.

Special thanks to Axel Rauschmayer for many of the snippets.

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Object JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 Futures Overview

December 15, 2014

imageECMAScript 6 specification and implementation is underway and promises to bring many of the features that you’ve learned about in the posts on Object JavaScript. ECMAScript is the foundation of JavaScript. ECMAScript has gone through several versions. The current browsers support ECMA Script 5. . The discussions today are revolving improvements beyond versions past 5, which are code-named, ECMAScript Harmony.

The ES6 compatibility table is very useful, as it tells us the ES6 features that are supported in the current browser. It also gives us a handy link to the specifications for each of the features listed.  You will find that the current versions of browsers are implementing these features as fast as they can. The table shows that some subset of the feature exists, so as we say,  “your mileage may vary”. That said, it is coming.

I don’t have any particular insider information, but wanted to share what I am learning as I explore ECMAScript 6 and what it means to the way that code is written today. In my search I found two great articles that I am pulling information from:

My value add is to provide context for the previous posts and show how your code in the future could look like to implement many of the same features. And this topic is fluid so again, “your mileage may vary”. My intent is to give you can idea of what is coming and how soon to help you decide how deeply you want to invest in the current technologies. That said, one of the goals in ECMAScript 6 is to not break anything you are doing now.

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Using Modernizr, Polyfills, YepNope

February 4, 2014

image_thumb_7F533839Modernizr is a small JavaScript library that you can use for feature detection, browser compatibility using polyfills, and quick JavaScript loading. I’ll take each one in turn.

It detects the availability of native implementations for next-generation web technologies, i.e. features that stem from the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications. Many of these features are already implemented in at least one major browser (most of them in two or more), and what Modernizr does is, very simply, tell you whether the current browser has this feature natively implemented or not.

Once you do the feature detection for your browser, you can then do polyfill.

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