Introducing 140 char (or less) JavaScript programs

By Ara Pehlivanian on Friday, July 18th, 2008

Today I got tired of seeing yet another onclick="obtrusivejavascript()" 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]; i += 1) {
    if (elems[i].getAttribute("onclick")) {
        elems[i].onclick = function () {
            alert("FAIL!");
        }
    }
}

Compressed for Twitter:

var x=document.getElementsByTagName("*");for (var i=0;x[i];i++){if (x[i].getAttribute("onclick")){x[i].onclick=function(){alert("FAIL!");}}}

I invite you to continue the trend. Write 140 character (or less) JavaScript programs and post them to Twitter then post a link here in the comments. If the trend grows, I’ll build a small site to host the activity.

I’ll go first!★

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  1. Ara Pehlivanian on July 18, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    http://twitter.com/ara_p/statuses/861969980

  2. Sarven Capadisli on July 18, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Since I no longer use twitter, I’ve posted mine at identi.ca.

    http://identi.ca/notice/110038

    135 characters.

  3. Nathan Smith on July 18, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Here’s mine. Death to inline styles…

    http://twitter.com/nathansmith/statuses/862131931

  4. Dave Lowe on July 18, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    Here’s my contribution: a mild alteration for unaccessible images.

    http://twitter.com/davelowe/statuses/862141134

  5. Daniel Marino on July 18, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    I’ve got one – Don’t use font tags… they’re evil

    http://twitter.com/starzonmyarmz/statuses/862153947

  6. thatjsguy on July 18, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    http://twitter.com/thatjsguy/statuses/862229507

    Different for different pages….