JavaScript Programmer’s Reference MSIE (Web browser) An acronym (Space web hosting)
JavaScript Programmer’s Reference MSIE (Web browser) An acronym for the Microsoft web browser. See also: JScript version, Undocumented features, Web browser, Internet Explorer Multi-byte character (Definition) Character sets using more than 8 bits to represent a code point. JavaScript natively supports the Unicode character set. This means it is multi-byte character aware at the most fundamental level. Unicode and localization issues are related to one other and the one depends on the other. You cannot effectively localize an environment properly without multi-byte character sets. The extensions to ASCII to make it an international character set were workable but somewhat inconvenient. All manner of escape sequences were required and ultimately, it consumes more space than a multi-byte character would have. Unicode extended the width of the code points from 8 bits to 16. This allows the character set to increase from 256 to 65536 code points. To all intents and purposes, this is sufficient to encode every glyph and character share required by all languages world-wide. However, there may still be some limitations in the encoding used for Far-Eastern language variants. These may be addressed in the Unicode version 3.0 standard. See also: Character set, Localization, Unicode Multi-dimensional arrays (Definition) Useful techniques for manipulating matrices for math problems. Multi-dimensional arrays are not supported directly in JavaScript but you can construct them with arrays of arrays. An array can refer to another array with one of its elements. This means you can build multidimensional arrays, which are useful for working out 3D transformations. You probably wouldn’t implement a renderer or 3D modeller in JavaScript. However, you might have a Java applet that takes rotation values or perhaps a 3D viewing plugin of some sort that does the hard work. Warnings: . The arrays are not truly multi-dimensional and you must be careful to construct them properly and avoid damaging them inadvertently. 1466