Chapter 2. Language and Browser Utilities

This chapter formally introduces the language utilities that you'll find in Base. The language utilities are designed to streamline some of the most commonly worked-around problems in JavaScript programming, and they're designed to be ultra-portable and highly optimized. Regardless of whether you use anything else in the entire toolkit, the constructs presented in this chapter are worth a hard look because they provide augmentation that is difficult to imagine living without once you've gotten used to using them. Manipulating arrays, cloning nodes, adding and removing classes, and calculating margin and content boxes for DOM nodes are among the topics included in this chapter.