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I recently ran into a problem with a webpage rendering different on two computers running the same version of Internet Explorer. For some reason one of them rendered the page in compatibility view mode...
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Module pattern When your application grows it can easily become messy with JavaScript scattered everywhere. There isn’t any built in functionality for organizing scripts in JavaScript (though adding...
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