Create Interactive Answers through Live JavaScript |
Posted: February 17, 2015 |
Nowadays, a large number of websites have started inculcating forms within their websites. Whether it's the need to register for a product/service or subscribing to the weekly/monthly newsletters published by the website owner, online forms allow customers to get connected with the service provider on an instant basis. In-line with this statement, if often becomes frustrating for the users to fill out long forms that include a wide collection of fields. Instead of spending a lot of time on filling out forms, people prefer participating at live chat sessions wherein they're able to find quick and relevant answers for all their queries. With JavaScript being one of the most incredible frameworks for development of brilliant question and answer websites, it is hard to image people ditching JavaScript for any other online forum development framework. Through this blog, I'll be offering you a detailed insight into the Live JavaScript feature that has introduced a visible advancement into the question and answer websites. Stack Snippets- What are they exactly? Stack Overflow, one of the most popular question and answer websites has recently launched a brand new feature for the Java web developers. Live JavaScript editor has now being embedded into a different tool that's been used for running JavaScript, HTML and the CSS Code on the questions page of the website. Stack Snippets, the all-new JavaScript live editor feature allows the static questions and answers to become a part of the runnable code. David Haney, the man behind Stack Snippets is quite confident that the feature would definitely witness appreciation from both, novice as well as professional Java developers. It is also being affirmed that all the questions and answers would appear complete and on the same page. Stack Snippets- How has it helped the Java developers? Although Stack Overflow has always permitted developers to post static code snippets, with the introduction of stack snippets, the developer would now be able to embed the runnable code. In addition to this, a variety of concerns raised due to lack of the ability to refer a runnable, working code are also being solved with the inception of the Stack snippets feature. Some of the commonly encountered concerns are listed below:
Stack Snippet- How to create it? In order to create a Stack snippet, all you need to do is simply go to the Markdown editor window where you'll find a new button. Below is the screen-shot for this button. Click on this button and launch the Stack Snippets editor. Using the Stack Snippets editor, you'll be able to enter the HTML, CSS and JavaScript code. After getting your code working, simply press the “Insert into Post” button placed towards the bottom of the page. Here, you can also choose to test the snippet or opt for loading it back into the Stack Snippets editor for the purpose of editing the code. Thus, when you're planning to answer a post that contains a snippet, all you need to do is simply include a modified version of the original snippet. You can do this by simply clicking on the “Copy snippet to answer” button. A brief on the security aspect of Stack Snippets Since snippets aid in running client code in the web browser, you can't get into any kind oftrouble in terms of data security. As a precautionary exercise, you can always choose to isolate the snippets from the site in order to block any access to the private Stack Exchange Data i.e. questions and answers. For this, you can choose any one of the following two methods: Method No.1- You can use HTML5 sandboxed iframes for preventing different kinds of malicious attacks. Method No.2- You can render the snippets on an external domain for ensuring that the snippets are not able to access your logged-in session or cookies. Governed by the wide community of Java developers, Stack Snippets are the best tools for restricting coders to write code that's annoying and leads to downvotes on specific questions and answers. With code snippets, you can easily choose to flag a particular code that's intended to be harmful. By enabling Stack Snippets on all code-related StackExchange sites, the developers have been competent in helping users find appropriate answers to different kinds of questions. Conclusion After getting the vibe of Stack Snippets, its time for you to embrace this JavaScript feature on an immediate basis.Trying out Stack Snippets is perhaps the best thing you can do for rendering a professional touch to your website. About the Author : Celin Smith is a web developer as well as technical content writer, who works at Xicom Technologies Ltd., a leading software web development company. Serving Xicom, a leading java development service, Celin basically writes about web & mobile Application, and technologies including ASP.NET, Java, PHP, etc.
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