Thoth

Polyfills

This library includes polyfills for:

Array manipualtion
- indexOf (polyfill ECMA 5.1)
- lastIndexOf (polyfill ECMA 5.1)
- forEach (polyfill ECMA 5.1)
- filter (polyfill ECMA 5.1)
- every (polyfill ECMA 5.1)
- isArray (polyfill ECMA 5.1)
- contains (non standard)
- containsWhere (non standard)
- remove (non standard)
- removeAt (non standard)
- removeWhere (non standard)
String manipulation
- trim (polyfill ECMA 5.1)
- starsWith (polyfill ECMA 6)
- endsWith (polyfill ECMA 6)
- format (non standard)

In order to provide homogeneos functionality on any "modern" browser (IE8 or newer), the following workarounds are provided:

DOM manipulation
- General
  - thoth.hasAttribute:
    
    Returns whatever or not the given element has the given attribute.
  - thoth.findParent:
    
    Returns the parent element of the given element.
  - thoth.isElement:
    
    Return whatever or not the given object is an element.
  - thoth.measure:
    
    Returns the screen dimensions of the given element.
- Walking elements
  - thoth.prev
    
    Returns the previous element sibling of the given element.
  - thoth.next
    
    Returns the next element sibling of the given element.
- classes
  - thoth.addClass
    
    Adds the given class to the given element, no duplicates.
  - thoth.removeClass
    
    Removes the given class to the given element.
  - thoth.hasClass
    
    Returns whatever or not the given element has the given class.
- Form fields
  - thoth.getValue
    
    Returns the value of the given field.
  - thoth.setValue
    
    Sets the value of the given field.
  - thoth.clearValue
    
    Clears the value of the given field (note: not default, but empty value).
  - thoth.getType
    
    Returns the type of the given field. (note: returns artificial types email-one and email-multiple instead of just email).
Event subscription
- thoth.on
  
  Subscribes to the given event on the given object, returns a function to unsubscribe.

In addition, the following functionality is provided:

Async execution

Use the class thoth.Delay to create and control async operations or timers (if repetition is set).
Async load of script

Use thoth.include or thoth.include_once to dynamically load scripts.
Form Validation

Use thoth.FormValidator to validate forms.

And objects constructors for:

Dictionary

Use thoth.Dictionary to create a dictionary.
Execution dispatcher

Use thoth.Dispatch to create a context for execution scheduling, or use thoth.Dispatch.global. The context allows to set continuations to wait a signal, and to execute those continuations when the signal is given).