Tham khảo sách 'javascript bible_ chapter 46', công nghệ thông tin, kỹ thuật lập trình phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Authoring Tools Tools to assist JavaScript development have lagged way behind tools for HTML page authoring but the scripting world is the beneficiary of recent efforts by both browser makers and third parties. As you will see in this chapter the bulk of tool activity is for development of enterprise-based scripting either because of tool focus or pricing strategy both of which limit the audience to serious Web application developers. With the significant exception of Acadia s Infuse most of the tools available so far are designed not so much to assist the serious scripter as to put the power of scripting into the hands of the nonprogrammer. This is tricky business. HTML authoring tools can hide well the ugliness of HTML tags because the metaphor of a document is widely accepted by authors who publish content. But a script is a different situation. What is the metaphor for a script And how well does one script fit all application scenarios If these questions could be answered easily there would be dozens of programming tools for nonprogrammers in all languages. But that is not the case. In the rapidly changing environment of Web authoring tools I can t guarantee that information I provide here will be current by the time you read it. Therefore for every tool I mention I suggest also checking the associated URL for the latest developments. Acadia s Infuse Although only in a prerelease version PR2 as I write this Acadia s Infuse for Windows 95 shows great potential as a helpful authoring tool for serious scripters of client- or server-side JavaScript. The product includes a source code editor that has scripters in mind offering shortcuts for inserting both HTML and scripting construct skeletons that authors can fill in. An excellent example is the keystrokes Infuse saves when adding a for loop to a script. Type the word for and a space and Infuse automatically enters the entire basic structure of a for loop assigning the i variable and preselecting the .
