JavaScript Programmer’s Reference So far, not much of
JavaScript Programmer’s Reference So far, not much of this capability has found its way into the currently available web browsers. There are many issues that have not yet been addressed with this aspect of style sheets. For example, controlling multi-lingual spoken text and dates may be somewhat problematic. Certainly the locale that the browser is operating in may be used to select a national language variant for the spoken word. Warnings: . This facility is not yet supported by any of the browsers. AuthentiCode (Security related) This is a security model that applies digital signatures to ActiveX objects in MSIE. Warnings: . This technique does not currently support signed scripts in MSIE and only applies to ActiveX objects. See also: Security policy, Signed scripts Automatic semi-colon insertion (Definition) The action of adding semi-colons where they have been omitted. Availability: ECMAScript edition 2 A semi-colon explicitly placed in the source text must terminate certain statements. Your JavaScript interpreter may help by adding some automatically, but this may not work as you expect. As they say, “Your mileage may vary”. Semi-colons are used to explicitly terminate certain keywords so that the parser can determine exactly where the fragment of code begins and ends. The semi-colon removes the ambiguity about how a piece of code is intended to execute. Line terminators greatly affect the automatic semi-colon insertion process. The following statements must have trailing semi-colons: . empty statement . variable statement . expression statement . continue statement . break statement . return statement . throw statement