A Couple of Links and Random Thoughts, Dropped on You Out of the Blue
I haven't shared random bits of Internet with you for months. That changes right now.
Sharing is Caring- Using JavaScript to Enable Image Sharing
People hijack my images all over the web. Yes. It's true. While I'm not 100% happy about it, I'm also not 100% upset about it since I'm glad that people like my images enough to swipe them. So I tolerate it.
One thing that would make it all a lot more palatable is if people who were taking my images would link back to my site. The link would serve as credit, would drive traffic, and would increase my page rank. What's not to love?
To that end, I wrote up a little script last week that I attached to all my gallery images to maybe, just maybe, help people to do just that.
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JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit Part 3- wherein Eval() kind of bums me out
(and several months later I finish my little JSON series…)
So far my exploration of JSON has been a fun-filled walk in the park. Moonbeams and rainbows. All that.
This last post on the subject is slightly less cool as I get into one of the least attractive components of the whole JSON thing- the use of eval() to transform a text response into a proper JavaScript object. The use of eval() is one of the reasons I originally was a little shy about using JSON. Why? eval() is slow and I try to stay away from slow if at all possible. That and the idea of eval()-ing code from some third party makes me wary.
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The difference between javascript's getElementById() and getElementsByName()
The above question is one I've gotten in my logs a couple of times. I don't actually answer it anywhere on the site, so I figured I might as well answer it here. For some strange reason, in my mellowed old age, I'm all about helping and I haven't written about web technologies in about a month, so it can't hurt.
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A static variation on JavaScript's getElementsByTagName
As I mentioned yesterday I wanted to offer up an alternative to the browser crushing example I made to illustrate the point about Javascript Objects. So here it is…