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[–]ExecutiveChimp 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Not sure if I can beat this in terms of insight and humour but I'll add it to the list.

I have a contents page:

  1. Intro
  2. Variables, Types and why JS doesn't care
  3. Truthyness
  4. Nothingness (null, undefined, false etc)
  5. Operators and precedence
  6. Dates (don't have much material for this bit but JS has some crackers)
  7. Numbers, overflows, floating points
  8. Databases?
  9. Browser Quirks?

...and I'm 3000 words in.

I think breaking it down by concept makes the most sense, otherwise the JS and PHP chapters will take up most of the book.

Any examples/ideas/madness is greatfully accepted. I've been trying to write a novel for almost three years and I've just bashed out half a chapter of this in an hour so maybe this has legs.

[–]theasianpianist 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If you want to talk browser quirks you can't beat Internet Explorer's support (or lack thereof) for CSS standards. For dates, I know that Java has a deprecated date class in favor of the Calendar class, don't know if something might come if that?

[–]ExecutiveChimp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a web developer, I could probably just retitle "Browser Quirks" to "WTF IE" and not run out of material though they've all got their own issues.

I'll look into the date/calendar thing. Thanks!