[Edbrowse-dev] jQuery

[Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>]

My first foray into jquery has me shaking my head.

https://learn.jquery.com

I downloaded jquery-1.11.1.js,
and at least it is real code, not minimized.
But what is the point?
It reminds me, decades ago, a proff showed me how you could
use the preprocessor to almost turn C into pascal.

#define begin {
#define end }
etc

And then he said, "but don't ever do that!"

jquery seems to be a huge library of functions that overlay prototypes and
all sorts of things to make js more powerful I guess.
If we have a perfect js dom implementation then jquery would run just fine,
but we don't.

My first load of the library gives this error.

jquery-1.11.1.js: 916: TypeError: document is undefined

Really?
almost the first thing I do in createJavaContext is make the document object.
It's there from the start, but somehow something in this library has caused
it to disappear.
I haven't had the time or the inclination to track down what has happened.

Karl Dahlke