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Today I got tired of seeing yet another onclick=”myjavascriptsucks()” in HTML so I wrote a little program in protest. What I wanted to do though was to post the program to Twitter which has a 140 character limit so it was mildly challenging. Here it is:
Fully expanded:
var elems = document.getElementsByTagName(”*”);
for (var i = 0; elems[i]; [...]

One of the most common operations when assigning event handlers is to prevent the default action the event normally triggers.
In the case of an anchor for example, the click event of an anchor triggers the default behaviour of following the URI specified in the href attribute. So the browser’s default action when clicking the “Fluffy [...]

The technology of the web is maturing. However slowly and clumsily, it is maturing. The web of today looks nothing like the web of ten years ago. Most notable are the advent and widespread adoption of Web Standards, and more recently the mushrooming popularity of JavaScript due largely to Web 2.0 mania.
The trouble though, is [...]

There’s a right way and a wrong way to go about i18n. Just to be clear, I don’t subscribe to the idea of right vs. wrong unless there’s a good reason for it, otherwise I just chalk it up to preference. Sometimes I consider something as a matter of preference until someone points out a [...]

Throttling the onresize event in IE.