More Javascript Didacticisms: Namespaces

For the draft page in the Blogger dashboard, I'm seeing sixteen javascript libraries and five extensions running in Chrome. That's a lot. Think about that next time you type var scratch = "something" .

If you want to use scratch and so does the person who wrote the popup library, your code might not work. I learned this when I was writing test code to properly create objects for jQuery's post(). I was sharing a variable that contained the URL for the JSON I was grabbing, and when I had Before commented out, After worked perfectly, but otherwise, it all crashed.

The solution? Objects.

var my_ns = {
    foo : x' ,
    bar : 14 ,
    blee : function () {
        ...
        }
    }

$(function() {
    my_ns.blee()
    } )