JavaScript Object Programming

CHAPTER 8

Designing for JavaScript

We chose the JSWindows project because it was well-suited to class-based inheritance. Consider the inheritance chain for the window-closing button.

Button_close    Button        Rect            Wobj

Clearly, the window-closing button is a specialized instance of the generic Button. Equally clearly, the Button is a specialized Rect and the Rect is one of the objects you need to show on the screen, a specialized window object. At least this part of JSWindows fits very well into a class-based OOP inheritance hierarchy. (Not by accident. That’s why we chose the project.)

But the question remains, given the material ...