Javascript: try/catch return statement
How a return statement inside a try/catch block works? function example() { try { return true; } finally { return false; } } I'm expecting the output of this function to be "true", but instead is "false"! ...
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Javascript: What will happen if the size of cookies exceeds the size allocated for Cookies in a Browser ?
The Title says it. ...
JavaScript in Ruby
I want to replicate any given Javascript loop , class , function to into its Ruby Equivalent and e.g would as follow suppose I passed the following Javascript function. function define() { var x = 0; for(var i=0; i < 10 ; i++) { var x += i } alert(x); } define(); then I should get replicate to ...
YUI Dialog using ajax request - want to execute javascript returned from Java but out of scope
Hi, I have a YUI dialog that submits a form to a Java servlet. The servlet returns html and javascript. I take the response and put it into a div on the page and then eval the javascript that is within the div. My problem is that I get an error in the firebug console saying "YAHOO is not defined" as soon as the servlet returns. I do...
Make swf file a link using Jquery
I've been sent a swf file for a banner that needs to be linked to a url. I am adding this to my client's website and my client has been sent the swf and javascript to add to the page. The problem is that the javascript code is overly complex, and I'm wanting to use Jquery and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (I've not yet updated to swfobject o...
Format tweet on the client side with javascript?
To document some recent events I saved all tweets including a special hashtag. Now I have about 50.000 tweets which I want to publish. To save bandwidth and server load I want just want to send the raw tweet text to the client and then render it with javascript (linking hashtags, useranames and urls). Is there already javascript library...
Bubbling an event triggered by disabled element
The question is: should the disabled element produce an event that will be triggered on its parent(s)? <div id="test"> <button disabled="disabled">Click me</button> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementById("test").onclick = function() { alert("Clicked!"); }; </script> All browsers except IE prevent the even...
Timeout on loading MotionJPEG image?
While there are a number of techniques that allow a JavaScript program to detect that an image hasn't loaded after a set timeout, things get more complicated if the said image is a MotionJPEG stream. Is it possible to check if any content has been transmitted during the last N seconds while loading a remote resource? ...
Distance Between Two GEO Locations
I got 2 GEO locations. How can I calculate the distance between each? ...
Google map comes partially, grey area comes instead of images from google server.
Sometimes google map comes partially with other area getting grayed out. There is one catch, if we start Firebug, images do come in that gray area. Dont know why this is happening. Anybody ever experienced this and found solution, Please share. ...
[dojo] Serialize JSON data
I have written following function that takes json object and returns a serialized json String: function serializeJson(object) { if(isArray(object)) { console.log("This is an array"); return walkThrough(object); } else { console.log("This is an object"); var key, value; var jsonArr = [...
Microsoft.XMLDOM js question
Hi all, Is it possible to check if loaded with xmlDoc.loadXML(xmlData); xml string is invalid? For example if there is missed closing bracket or a tag. ...
jquery remove duplicate li
<ul id="myid"> <li>microsoft</li> <li>microsoft</li> <li>apple</li> <li>apple</li> </ul> I want to remove duplicates from li by using jquery. How can I do that? ...
How to protect/Hide Javascript method or JS file from user to view
How can I protect my implemented JS methods from user? So that no one could copy these methods. Normally, User can see JS methods in firebug easily. I want to hide methods in firebug also. Is there any trick to hide methods from users? Note: I don't want to use Eval method. so please don't suggest me to eval based tricks ...
How to pass byte arrays between Java and JavaScript
I need to access SecureRandom Java Object from Javascript. My ultimate goal is to grab 4 bytes from PRNG and convert it to Javascript integer variable. According to http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/security/SecureRandom.html, the following two lines of Java code are supposed to do grab 4 random bytes: byte bytes[] ...
Simple webpage that crashes Internet Explorer 8
Hi, I've tried the following HTML code on several different Windows 7 computers with Internet Explorer 8, and everywhere this crashes Internet Explorer. I have not been able to reproduce this with IE7, or on Windows XP with IE8. <!doctype html> <head> <title>Crashes IE8 on Win7</title> <style> article { display: block; } </style> <scr...
Firebug : How to make net tab persistent?
If I load new web page, the content of the old web page in net tab would all disappear. Is there a way to make it persistent over different web page? PS: I'm using Firebug 1.5.4. Thanks in advance. ...
Problems in upgrading to v3 from v2 of google maps API
I have full fledged integration of google maps version 2 in my web application, with features like get directions, cluster markers, tabbed info window, context menu(right click). The implementation has very poor design which is causing some problem, So now I need to revamp the core implementation to better design. I was thinking of upgra...
Best way to modify an element that is not yet created
Hello, I have an <input> field in my web page, and I want to add a particular method on it, let say fooBar(). Here is what I do: <input id="xxx" .../> <script type="text/javascript"> $("xxx").fooBar = function() { ... }; </script> This works well. However, for some reasons I will not detail here (in fact the HTML is generated by...
Google maps (V3) - Map container selector (using jquery)
I'm trying to solve a tricky problem in Google Maps (api V3) Works nicely: var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_container"), myOptions); Doesn't Work if I try to use a jQuery selector var map = new google.maps.Map($('#map_container'), myOptions); I made this EXAMPLE Thank you in advance Cheers Pedro ...