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Originally Posted by kmote  Interestingly enough, according to standards (note that I have not read the standard myself to verify this) javascript does not require semicolons though they are considered good practice. And while you are right to note that javascript is an interpreted language and as such is not compiled, you can usually set the browser to pop up with an error if there is a problem. |
You are correct, Javascript does not require semicolons. I believe it treats a new line as an end of the previous statement. However I always use semicolons, just out of habit from other languages.
And you are also right again, Javascript problems can be debugged with the browser. If you are using Firefox I highly recommend the Firebug extension. You can step-by-step crawl Javascript code, insert breaks, and so on to debug and find out where things went wrong.