You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
Once you’ve got your finely crafted design all ready, and you’re layering on a little unobtrusive JavaScript, you’ll hesitate to toss a big ugly pre element in there just so you can do some debugging.
What if you didn’t have to?
What if you only had to include a JavaScript file and call one method to get [...]
If you’re like me, your JavaScript objects can get pretty complex. It can be a real drag to write separate trace statements for lots of different properties. I find it very convenient to be able to dump an object’s representation out to the trace window.
At some point, you’ll tire of JavaScript’s built in objects and want to create an object to call your own. This is what object-oriented programming is all about.