The JavaScript tools in 8.6 are faster and smarter, providing better content assist, validation, inbuilt support for prototype, jQuery and more.

• Support for Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in JavaScript

  New Class

  

  Adding fields and methods to an instance

  

  Recognition of private elements

  

  

  

• Support for ScriptDoc makes content assist more intelligent

  Observe that the toLowerCase method that is applicable only to String objects has been presented due to the @param annotation

  

  Here the @type annotations provides similar assistance for String types

  

  property is presented because we know the return object is of type TypeToReturn

  

Add jQuery, DOJO or YUI libraries to your project for advanced content assist. The editor has inbuilt support for the prototype framework's OOP constructs.

Here we can see the content assist and documentation for the insertBefore function

The ScriptDoc support exists here too, providing methods specific to the return type of the inArray method

Support for the XMLHttpRequest object

Support for the $ closure

prototype support

The editor understands the Class.create method

Support for subclasses

YUI support

Dojo support