Getting productive in an open source project usually means understanding someone else’s repository before you can ship a useful issue or PR. The default playbook is familiar: clone the repo, read whatever README or contributing guide exists, search the tree, skim recent commits, and hope the architecture becomes clear before you lose momentum. That path […]
Read More →In July 2016, Stack Overflow introduced Documentation Beta. Documentation is community-curated, example-focused developer documentation, based on the principles of Stack Overflow. In Stack Overflow Documentation, examples are the star of the show. Anyone can add one, so good topics will eventually have several useful examples. And much like answers on Stack Overflow, the most helpful […]
Read More →Try running this piece of javascript, it would throw a “URI malformed” exception. javascript:alert(decodeURIComponent(escape(’http://rushis.com/®’)));javascript:alert(decodeURIComponent(escape(‘http://rushis.com/®’))); The ® character is transformed to %AE, which is not a valid input to decodeURIComponent function. This issue is clearly evident in the latest prototype js 1.6 framework. _getHeaderJSON: function() { var json = this.getHeader(’X-JSON’); if (!json) return null; json = […]
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