I see your point regarding global scope. But personally, I’ve never encountered an issue with it. And it’s kinda nice not to have to import fetch every time you need it.
Regarding subdomains, if you’ll humor my curiosity: What’s the use case? I also wonder what an API for this might look like.
If I understand correctly, you want to check the current domain (eg. w3schools) against api.w3schools and www.youtube, and return true for the first and false for the second (or the other way around)
Then technically it’s possible without string splitting:
Most scripting languages have a global scope of some kind. It’s not that big of a deal.
I’d prefer not to have it, but it hasn’t caused me problems in many years. Actually, the window object can be really useful in some situations so I’m not even sure about that.
Global scope.
Also that there’s, after 35 years of webbrowsers, still no reliable way to match a domain without subdomain, except via string splitting.
I see your point regarding global scope. But personally, I’ve never encountered an issue with it. And it’s kinda nice not to have to import
fetchevery time you need it.Regarding subdomains, if you’ll humor my curiosity: What’s the use case? I also wonder what an API for this might look like.
const {domain, subdomains, rootDomain} = new URL('https://wikipedia.org/') // 'wikipedia.org', [], 'wikipedia.org' const {domain, subdomains, rootDomain} = new URL('https://foo.bar.baz.net/') // 'foo.bar.baz.net', ['foo.bar.baz.net', 'bar.baz.net'], 'baz.net'A userscript over links for debugging purposes, that should ignore links to the same domain (www.w3schools vs campus.w3schools vs www.youtube).
Btw, it’s funny how support.mozilla and some standards-teaching-sites are some of the worst offenders of web standards.
Edit: how to stop this auto-linking?
If I understand correctly, you want to check the current domain (eg. w3schools) against api.w3schools and www.youtube, and return true for the first and false for the second (or the other way around)
Then technically it’s possible without string splitting:
const href = 'retrieved-from-the-anchor-element'; (new URL(href, location.href).hostname).endsWith(location.hostname)Well, the whole web is basically “let’s go, make it work somehow”. Thanks for your effort!
Most scripting languages have a global scope of some kind. It’s not that big of a deal.
I’d prefer not to have it, but it hasn’t caused me problems in many years. Actually, the window object can be really useful in some situations so I’m not even sure about that.