Okay, the last procrastinational activity for today: a very (stone axe) crude kind of javascript indent tool built on GNU indent. So it doesn't really reindent Javascript code, but C. Silly me. But while it does trash the occasional RegExp literal, it's less of a hassle than doing all the work manually.
Besides, most C users wouldn't use web tools to indent their code. Not me, anyway. But if you would, feel free to use this one. The worst thing that could happen is that it might at some time in the future also work with keywords and literals you do not use in your C code, where they are not supported.
(I wish I had some tool that turns javascript input to an abstract syntax tree, which I could then just traverse to cook my own Function.prototype.toSource(). ...Okay, back to work now.)
2005-02-28
Modal headaches
How does one intercept modal browser alerts about connection problems, file transfer failues and the like from javascript?
Most of all, I want to trap the "The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.kingdomofloathing.com" dialog, which pops up very frequently (typically at least once every session) when I load a new frame from my javascript code. Of course it has nothing to do with which method I employ to load it, but it's mostly when I initiate the transfers myself when I'm really interested in trapping the alert to handle it in a more constructive and less user-involving manner.
Even a solution requiring me to be a Mozilla plugin would be useful, though what I really want is something that could live in a scriptlet or web page and handle the call, ideally cross-browser. With browser Javascript not being nearly as wing-clipped today as it was back in the nineteen hundreds, I've come to expect to be able to solve issues like these. (Let's hope I'm not being overly optimistic.)
Any feedback on the subject very welcome indeed. I'll be sure to write some kind of article about the solution once I find out or get pointed to it.
Most of all, I want to trap the "The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.kingdomofloathing.com" dialog, which pops up very frequently (typically at least once every session) when I load a new frame from my javascript code. Of course it has nothing to do with which method I employ to load it, but it's mostly when I initiate the transfers myself when I'm really interested in trapping the alert to handle it in a more constructive and less user-involving manner.
Even a solution requiring me to be a Mozilla plugin would be useful, though what I really want is something that could live in a scriptlet or web page and handle the call, ideally cross-browser. With browser Javascript not being nearly as wing-clipped today as it was back in the nineteen hundreds, I've come to expect to be able to solve issues like these. (Let's hope I'm not being overly optimistic.)
Any feedback on the subject very welcome indeed. I'll be sure to write some kind of article about the solution once I find out or get pointed to it.
2005-02-24
Mozilla tidbits
My signature-uncluttering phpBB Firefox extension seems to have been listed recently at Extension Room. And as proof of someone already using it, a few hits in the access log show that browsers are eagerly polling for updates -- and I received a second feature request, not counting my own. (With a bit of luck, I'll learn how to get a callback once just the HTML bits of a loading page have been fully loaded, so I can address my own issues with it. After all, it doesn't make any sense loading lots of graphics just to purge them a second later.)
Macromedia security team got back to me reporting that they have reproduced the problem and that it fortunately only feeds mouse events to the background flash application (not including data on which window should have seen the events). I hope the Macromedia and Mozilla people get to share intelligence on the subject; I'd be delighted if the former nailed their bug and the latter found a way of fixing the entire problem class from their side. Since IE for once seems unaffected, I have hope it's possible to somehow alter the plugin interface sandbox to catch this.
Oops, I just encountered a solution that Net doesn't consider valid. Minesweeper addicts beware: this game carries the same mind tying properties that your former brain virus did.
Macromedia security team got back to me reporting that they have reproduced the problem and that it fortunately only feeds mouse events to the background flash application (not including data on which window should have seen the events). I hope the Macromedia and Mozilla people get to share intelligence on the subject; I'd be delighted if the former nailed their bug and the latter found a way of fixing the entire problem class from their side. Since IE for once seems unaffected, I have hope it's possible to somehow alter the plugin interface sandbox to catch this.
Oops, I just encountered a solution that Net doesn't consider valid. Minesweeper addicts beware: this game carries the same mind tying properties that your former brain virus did.
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