Favelets, also called Bookmarklets, are links which contain special functionality. Instead of being directed to a URL when you click them, they perform an action using JavaScript. Favelets can be added to Internet Explorer as a favorite or Firefox,Chrome,Safari as a bookmark. There are browser extensions like GreaseMonkey, GreaseMetal which hand great power to the […]
Read More →Add-Art is a firefox plugin that would replace banner ad’s with some art. However lately, it’s become an embarrassment to see such images being called as art, see Image below. I keep checking Cricinfo at work to stay abreast with the scores, hence I had to do something about this. The good old GreaseMonkey came […]
Read More →Try running this piece of javascript, it would throw a “URI malformed” exception. javascript:alert(decodeURIComponent(escape(’http://rushis.com/®’)));javascript:alert(decodeURIComponent(escape(‘http://rushis.com/®’))); The ® character is transformed to %AE, which is not a valid input to decodeURIComponent function. This issue is clearly evident in the latest prototype js 1.6 framework. _getHeaderJSON: function() { var json = this.getHeader(’X-JSON’); if (!json) return null; json = […]
Read More →Google Analytics has launched asynchronous tracking. What this means is that the pages load faster and the analytics piece of javascript loads without blocking the rest of page from being rendered. Earlier this was not the case, hence we had to insert the analytics script code just before the </body> tag in your pages. The […]
Read More →I have seen people abuse, overuse, bombard the most beautiful client side language, Javascript. I am not going to discuss the Dos and Dont’s of javascript programming. This is an absolute treasure that I found, please feel compelled to liberally pass this link to all your fellow developers, friends, (Web developers). Thanks to the people […]
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