The latest five items from the weblog of Mathias Bynens http://mathiasbynens.be/notes en QMS 720 Does JavaScript use UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding? Since I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this question anywhere, I decided to look into it. The answer depends on what you’re referring to: the JavaScript engine, or JavaScript at the language level. http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding#comments http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:18:54 +0100 Having recently written about character references in HTML, I figured it would be interesting to look into JavaScript character escapes as well. http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-escapes http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-escapes#comments http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-escapes Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:24:30 +0100 I thought it would be fun to document the smallest possible valid HTML documents for each version, so here goes :) http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/minimal-html http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/minimal-html#comments http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/minimal-html Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:35:06 +0100 In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what happens if there’s an unencoded ampersand that’s not part of a character reference in your HTML code. Is it valid? Is it invalid? And what do “ambiguous ampersands” have to do with all this? http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/ambiguous-ampersands http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/ambiguous-ampersands#comments http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/ambiguous-ampersands Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:22:30 +0100 As a follow-up to the post documenting a few popular HTML element + attribute notations, here’s a similar one about JavaScript. http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-prototype-notation http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-prototype-notation#comments http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-prototype-notation Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:56:54 +0200