Two weeks ago we (me and Konst & Teknik) launched copypastecharacter.com—a site to make it dead easy to copy those special characters which otherwise can be hard to find. We just pushed an update and I realized I hadn’t mentioned it here. The character you click will automatically get copied into your clipboard, thanks to the [...]
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Multi-dimensional array sorter
The other day when working on some small updates on konst-teknik.se I wanted to sort the projects in a multi dimensional way, and take the other factors than the first into account. JavaScript’s Array#sort only supports one dimensional sorting so I wrapped my own sorter. The results turned up pretty good (at least compared to the [...]
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Ajax.CachedRequest
Recently I wanted to cache the results (responseText) from a lot of Ajax.Requests since the returning data would not change and made the roundtrip to the server unnecessary. Maybe there are others out there interested so here’s the code. It’s not very well tested except the project where it is in use so there might [...]
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Prototype & Script.aculo.us SVN checkins RSS feed
Thanks to Yahoo Pipes I created two RSS feeds for the Ruby on Rails checkins (changesets). One containing only the Rails-spinoffs checkins (that is Prototype and Script.aculo.us right now) and another without the spinoffs. This way I can follow the JavaScript-related changes as they happen but watch the Ruby-stuff every now and then. Only Spinoffs checkins Without [...]
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What’s new in Prototype svn?
Just after posting this I saw that sam tagged the 1.5.1 release in svn so I guess this means that 1.5.1 is final. Great work! There has been a lot of action the past days in the Prototype SVN; the release of 1.5.1 RC4, the new DOM and Position branches and a lot of other work. [...]
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One animated background image for multiple elements in Safari
I’ve found out that Safari can’t handle the same animated gif as background for multiple elements, it will just animate one of them at the same time. On a project I’m currently working on my I use the following trick to make all requests to the background image (in this case indicator_black.gif) unique. [...] var text = [...]
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Rails’ time extensions ported to JavaScript
I’ve ported Rails’ Numeric Time extensions to JavaScript since I needed to do some date calculations for a project I’m working on. Now one should be able to calculate dates in JS like this: (5).seconds() // => 5000 (2).weeks() + (2).hours() + (15).seconds() // => 1216815000 (1).week().fromNow().toDate() // => Fri Sep 22 2006 19:16:32 GMT+0200 (CEST) var date = [...]
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TextMate Prototype & Scriptaculous Bundle
This the first version of a TextMate bundle for Prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries. The language grammar is based on from Justin Palmers Prototype Bundle but the other commands/snippets are all new. Please let me know if you have any comments and/or improvements. Download here Update 2006-07-16 The bundle is [...]