This update addresses two problems — first, the keyword “import” is no longer considered a token so people using the excellent new “Components.utils.import” stuff in trunk mozilla can, well, use it without having it reported as a syntax error.

Second, I hacked support for the “let” statement into the parser to the point where you can use it wherever you can use “var”. This is obviously no where near the full usage of “let”, however I think it is a pretty common case and should be enough for people who want to used it as a narrowly scoped “var”.

Also note that I have not updated the scope checker to support let — it may not be possible without a major rewrite as I don’t believe I wrote that with only function level scope in mind.

Turns out the latest SideKick comes with its own parser named “javascript” which was conflicting with my parser named “javascript”. This was causing SideKick to forget which parser I had selected for each buffer. To fix this, I creatively renamed my parsers to “skrul-javascript” and “skrul-xml-javascript”. You can download the updated version here.

I just uploaded a new version of my JavaScript plugin for jEdit. The new version is compiled with Java 1.5 and is compatible with the latest version of jEdit. Also new in this version is support for validating JavaScript that is embedded in an XML document — there is support for XHTML, XUL, and XBL. Note that you will have to manually set the parser to “xmljavascript” (rather than just “javascript”) to get it to work. See the download page for more information:

JavaScript plugin for jEdit, version 0.4

Some stuff I’ve been working on:

xpclucene - Firefox extension that lets you index and search the pages you surf.

audioscrobbler - An audioscrobbler extension for Songbird.

JavaScript plugin for jEdit - Syntax checking, scope checking, and structure browsing for JavaScript in jEdit.

threaddemo - Firefox extension demonstrating the use of threads from JavaScript.

Unleash the (chow)hounds!!

I love chowhound. It has helped me find lots good grub back in New York City and is now serving me well in Los Angeles. However, it is truly the site that time forgot. Their guestbook.cgi style messageboard system is clearly busting at the seams — the message index of the Los Angeles board weighs in at a gluttonous 4.5MB download! It makes it very difficult to even load the page, not to mention trying to participate in the discussion.

To help myself keep up on all the good posts to chowhound, I created a script to scrape and publish RSS feeds of the new posts from the various chowhound message boards. I’m running these feeds through FeedBurner so anyone can subscribe to them:

• Chowhound Manhattan
• Chowhound Los Angeles

If anyone wants more feeds for the other message boards, please let me know.

Post Resources:

• unleash.pl
• losangeles.ini
• manhattan.ini