[TxMt] Javascript method snippet

[Mike Ter Louw]

Thanks, Allan!

Allan Odgaard wrote:
> I added the second version of the prototype snippet (but with open brace 
> on a new line, to match the function snippet -- I don’t know if there’s 
> a de-facto brace standard for JS!?!).

Like other C-like languages, I think it's mainly a matter of taste and 
the uniformity of having them both the same is the important thing.

JavaScript is a little bit different in that the code has to be sent to 
the client (typical use, not counting widgets et al.) before it can be 
interpreted.  That being the case, you'll often see people reducing 
variable names down to a single character in sufficiently encapsulated 
code.  While descriptive names are usually preferred, you can usually 
get away with it in JS.  That being said, having the brace not requiring 
an extra linefeed can save you a few extra bytes in a long script.

But then, there are JavaScript compactors on the net that pretty much 
eliminate whitespace entirely, so we come back to it just being a matter 
of taste or going along with convention.

Mike