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Re: Michel Gondry on rewarding behavior - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:35:54 -0000

ssdfsdfsd

Re: Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

Paul Irish — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:23:25 -0000

aww this is an adorable picture!

oh and i like the show idea, too.

clever! go nesn!

Re: DetektivbyrÃ¥n

Paul Irish — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:27:13 -0000

Hell of a find! Somehow my swedish informant told me about this amazing music two weeks after you had already gotten to it! Here's my Detektivbyran post although I chose the same songs. This music blows me away.
So great.

Re: Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline

Paul Irish — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:47:21 -0000

@John: Yeah I knew it was "released" then, just couldn't find any online reference at the time. I've updated the post, thanks.

@Paul & Matt: You guys are right. Once I thought about it, it's not my original thought or ideas. Hmm.. now where to put it.

Re: Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline

Paul Irish — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:06:50 -0000

@Dean: Roger that—updated. Thanks for dropping the note.

Re: Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline

Paul Irish — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:47:28 -0000

@Alex, Thanks. I'll dig up the URLs and throw those releases in.

@Brad, I'm using the Simile Timeline script, which really doesn't do anything in particular with the Y axis. So here, the vertical positioning really doesn't mean anything.

Re: How to Make an RSS Feed Where One Never Was

Paul Irish — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:00:18 -0000

Feed43 apparently deleted my feed! I'd suggest using Dapper or Yahoo Pipes from now on.

Re: Automate firing of onload events - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:49:19 -0000

The other benefit of this technique is that CSS developers also use the body#pagename technique to target specific pages.

Re: Automate firing of onload events - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:30:59 -0000

Haha, yup! Cool to hear you use the same technique.

Re: Automate firing of onload events - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:52:02 -0000

Matt, yeah classes work better if you're executing similar code on multiple pages. Good call there.

I like that approach.

Re: math is sexy

Paul Irish — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:56:09 -0000

good lord.

Re: Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline

Paul Irish — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:43:33 -0000

Very impressive benchmarks, Diego! I'm surprised this hasn't had more attention.
It's added.

Re: The Refresh CSS Bookmarklet -or- How to iterate quickly when debugging CSS - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:57:52 -0000

Bonus: firebug will refresh its display with the new styles as well.

Re: Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline

Paul Irish — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:53:13 -0000

All fixed. Thanks Diego.

Re: Graceful Degredation of Your Firebug-specific Code

Paul Irish — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:12:44 -0000

Eyal, you're right! Funny since, I've used that file plenty before.. though sometimes I catch some nasty IE bugs when I use it.
This code still uses "console" in window instead of just checking window.console so there might be a diff. Let me take a peek.
Thanks!

Re: Concatenate()

Paul Irish — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:20:28 -0000

@Marc, while I do like how yours is cleaner from a syntax POV, I'm of the camp who say extending native objects is verboten.

<small>{Editor's note May 2010: Haha. 2.5 years ago I was scared shitless of any code that had the keyword prototype. Whoops. Shows my ignorable, for sure. :) ]</small>

Re: Concatenate()

Paul Irish — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:07:36 -0000

Ah, that's totally cool!
If join() did require its input be arrays then we'd go with the [].splice method, but this is much nicer.

Hmm that makes me think:
What other functions get used like this? (Hijacking their methods for use with other objects?)

Re: JavaScript namespaces

Paul Irish — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:29:45 -0000

Nicely done.

Re: How to tweak 3rd party scripts "safely" - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:01:35 -0000

After sharing this entry with #jquery:
<tt>
19:59| prophet > what tweak means?
19:59| hansbrix > prophet: to break in an as-of-yet-to-be-discovered fashion :)
</tt>
Heh. :)

Re: How to tweak 3rd party scripts "safely" - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:43:12 -0000

Frode,
great call. The regex is a lot slicker. thanks

Re: Wiki to HTML using JavaScript

Paul Irish — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:25:49 -0000

I guess it's also worth noting that this is MediaWiki-specific syntax. (Which means it doesn't handle Trac wiki, TiddlyWiki, etc...)

Regardless, congrats on the code.. This will be quite useful.

(... and OMFG. doubleclick to edit blog comments!!!!! amazing. :)

Re: Best practice: Poll instead of a setTimeout hack - Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:16:25 -0000

Excellent suggestion, Pete.

I must admit I was using this technique in a greasemonkey script and therefore in FF only.

Will update the post.

Re: Prediction Markets vs. Survey Data: Fight!

Paul Irish — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:56:09 -0000

FiveThirtyEight.com looks to be the champion of aggregated polling info this time around. His methodology is insanely complicated and documented. "The guy (Nate Silver) who runs it got some notice after being the only source to accurately predict the North Carolina & Indiana Democratic primary results (everyone else all predicted Hillary would do a lot better)."

Re: maxlength plugin

Paul Irish — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:08:36 -0000

When you're reached the max limit of the box, ctrl-a, delete, home and end do not work. Those are keyCodes: 17 + 65, 46, 36, 35.

Re: How to detect if a font is installed (only using JavaScript)

Paul Irish — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:06:24 -0000

I hope that font-family.com will be populated with some sexy font stacks like the ones from http://unitinteractive.com/... and hopefully using more of the new vista fonts.. :)
good stuff.