KevLinDev Blog

Surprisingly, I’m seeing more and more traffic to my “Inheritance in JavaScript” tutorial. As that traffic has increased, there have been a number of legitimate complaints about my use of an “init” method to initialize base classes and child classes. I found a way around that last October, so I thought it was high time to incorporate that approach into the tutorial. So, if you find C#/Java-style OOP in JavaScript interesting (or at least not offensive), then you may enjoy my latest updated tutorial.

http://www.kevlindev.com/tutorials/javascript/inheritance/index.htm

Special thanks go to Robin Debreuil - aka. The Prototype Master - for suggesting how to get around the use of “init”. Also, special thanks to Peter Michaux (and many others) for gently prodding me to update my tutorial.

I have just published a new tutorial on KevLinDev that discusses a method for simplifying hand-drawn curves. The algorithm allows you to specify a tolerance so you can control the quality of the final curve as visually compared to the original curve. The tutorial ends with an example showing the algorithm in action. I hope you’ll enjoy the tutorial and gain something useful from it.

I’m using a “hand-rolled” OOP technique in my JavaScript throughout my site. I’ve been asked to explain that code a few times, so I decided to write up a short tutorial explaining how I implement OO in JavaScript. You can read that here.