I never liked jsLint... tries to enforce some overzealous conventions.
I've seen some comments on JSHint. Haven't tried it, but it looks nice,
lets you decide your coding standard.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
Awesome. It seems to work well in FF4. Now we just
need to tack on a
jsLint button :) (Although we would have to get an exception to their
"good not evil" licensing clause!)
Ryan Kaldari
On 4/12/11 5:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> While pondering some directions for rapid prototyping of new UI stuff, I
> found myself lamenting the difficulty of editing JS and CSS code for
> user/site scripts and gadgets:
>
> * lots of little things to separately click and edit for gadgets
> * no syntax highlighting in the edit box
> * no indication of obvious syntax errors, leading to frequent edit->preview
> cycles (especially if you have to turn the gadget back off to edit
> successfully!)
> * no automatic indentation!
> * can't use the tab key
>
> Naturally, I thought it might be wise to start doing something about it.
> I've made a small gadget script which hooks into editing of JS and CSS
> pages, and embeds the ACE code editor (
http://ace.ajax.org -- a component of
> the Cloud9 IDE, formerly Skywriter formerly Mozilla Bespin). This doesn't
> fix the usability issues in Special:Gadgets, but it's a heck of a lot more
> pleasant to edit the gadget's JS and CSS once you get there. :)
>
> The gadget is available on
www.mediawiki.org on the 'Gadgets' tab of
> preferences. Note that I'm currently loading the ACE JavaScript from
>
toolserver.org, so you may see a mixed-mode content warning if you're
> editing via
secure.wikimedia.org. (Probably an easy fix.)
>
> Go try it out!
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CodeEditor.js
>
> IE 8 kind of explodes and I haven't had a chance to test IE9 yet, but it
> seems pretty consistently nice on current Firefox and Chrome and (barring
> some cut-n-paste troubles) Opera.
>
> I'd really love to be able to use more content-specific editing tools like
> this, and using Gadgets is a good way to make this sort of tool available
> for testing in a real environment -- especially once we devise some ways to
> share gadgets across all sites more easily. I'll be similarly Gadget-izing
> the SVG-Edit widget that I've previously done as an extension so folks can
> play with it while it's still experimental, but we'll want to integrate them
> better as time goes on.
>
> -- brion