Tag Archives: instance
Finally: Singletons, the Mootools way
I have been using for a while the “new new Class” syntax to create singletons on the projects I am working on. This is for many reasons, but specially because I didn’t like other solutions like Class.Mutators, Class.Oclude or extending a plain object with $extend(). Now, after discussing a little bit on the Mootools email [...]
Setting up timers and intervals inside JS objects
It may seem trivial but it has its tricky point. Usually, in procedural Javascript (this is, non object oriented programming), timers are set up passing the callback function on a string: function hello() { alert("hello"); } // Will execute hello() after 10 seconds setTimeout('hello()', 10000); For this code to work, hello() has to be [...]