beastman82 14 days ago

I see an error. "hadc0ffee" is neither hexadecimal nor matches that regex. Am I missing something?

  • jethkl 14 days ago

    You are missing the joke. The correct line would read:

      isHexadecimal("HADC0FFEE"); // false
  • huffstler 14 days ago

    I believe they're showing an example of where people would use (incorrect) regex patterns to validate. That's the whole thrust of the previous paragraph. `hadc0ffee` is not valid hex, but the function says it is due to, I presume, an incorrect regex pattern. I'm not familiar enough with regex to know why it's wrong though.

    Edit: I was curious, so I looked through the linked docs for regex. They have the exact same pattern for checking hex in there as they do in this one. I guess it was just an error after all?

  • graypegg 14 days ago

    so, I thought there was some esoteric weirdness in the spec'd Javascript regex engine that made HADC0FFEE somehow match /^[0-9A-F]+$/i. Then the joke kinda makes sense right? I do need coffee to work with JS most of the time haha

    But I do get false, running it in chrome dev tools.

    When they're talking about writing documentation for tricky subjects, this misses a bit. I have no clue what the joke is, other than, if you haven't had coffee, you might think this evaluates to true?

    • bee_rider 14 days ago

      I think that is the jokey, yeah. Also a tiny bit of a pun maybe, it looks sort of like a status test of some sort: did you have coffee?

  • simonkagedal 14 days ago

    I was also wondering what they were trying to say with that.

walteweiss 15 days ago

Off topic: am I the only one who sees the page shaking on an iPhone?

  • weikju 13 days ago

    No issues here in Safari on iOS

  • leosanchez 15 days ago

    Seeing the same on Android

  • prmoustache 14 days ago

    no shaking here on firefox/android.

SignalM 15 days ago

It's funny Mozilla has a blog that renders about 20px to wide on mobile. The company that makes most of the web standards. Something ironic about that

  • uallo 14 days ago

    > It's funny Mozilla has a blog that renders about 20px to wide on mobile.

    This is caused by the string "sha256-tG5mcZUtJsZvyKAxYLVXrmjKBVLd6VpVccqz/r4ypFE=" which does not wrap properly. Using "word-break: break-all;" on the pre element would fix it.

    > The company that makes most of the web standards.

    That is incorrect. Mozilla is only one of the several companies and working groups that may be involved. MDN is documentation, not specification.

    • StableAlkyne 14 days ago

      That, and this article in all likelihood was written by a single person whose main job isn't writing a blog. It definitely wouldn't have been been written by "the company"

      You don't absorb your company's entire knowledge base just by virtue of working there after all

  • sphars 14 days ago

    Renders fine on Firefox Android (no horizontal scrolling), but I do see the extra width on Chromium based browsers

  • archerx 14 days ago

    It doesn’t render at all on my ipad pro with iOS 13.7. Actually it does render and then immediately turns black. People give w3schools a lot of flak but at least it renders and is usable on my ipad unlike the MDN docs. Do we no longer care about backwards compatibility, it seems not and that’s shameful.

    • prmoustache 14 days ago

      FWIW the mdn blog works just fine without js so maybe try it while disabling javascript.

    • biinjo 14 days ago

      Im guessing this has something to do with certain protocols not supported on an (almost) 4 year old browser without any (security) updates.

      • azangru 14 days ago

        > Actually it does render and then immediately turns black

        This sounds like javascript behavior (MDN, to my surprise, is built on React).