Introduction These are some notes I made while selecting a browser-based rich text editor for my own personal use. Internet and web tech is not my expertise, so I had to catch up some stuff, just to make educated decisions. I’ll reiterate: I take notes as I work, so this explains why there are several [...]
Node.js is required to build several JavaScript packages (Quill, for example) and the version that was available from the repository of my Linux Mint 18.1 was way too old: node v4.2.6 and npm v3.5.2. The attempt to build the Quill Webpack with those oldies failed miserably. Truth to be said, there are instructions on how [...]
Introduction What I wanted: A simple applet on Cinnamon, which allows me to turn a service on and off (hostapd, a Wifi hotspot). I first went for Argos catch-all extension, and learned that Cinnamon isn’t gnome-shell, and in particular that extensions for gnome-shell don’t (necessarily?) work with Cinnamon. Speaking of which, my system is Linux [...]
Sometimes, there are JavaScript snippets for the sake of obfuscation (hmmm, including this site). This is code made complicated intentionally, to prevent web spiders from harvesting addresses or emails. But hey, what if I’m the one with the spider? The simple, and somewhat dangerous solution, is to run the JavaScript code on a local interpreter. [...]
The goal: Create spam-harvesting safe mailto links anywhere in the pages, generated on the fly with slightly obfuscated JavaScript, so that harvesting bots don’t get the email addresses. To make it slightly more complicateded, I want a replacement pattern with a parameter, telling the replacement script which email address to inject. In other words, if [...]
Intro I needed some neat overlay to appear when the user clicks those question-mark icons on a specific, Drupal-based page. So I went for using jQuery’s tooltip widget, with due adaptations. It turned out to be a wise choice. The idea is simple: Click on the question mark, an overlay window appears right underneath it, [...]
This is just a collection of jots I ( = a Drupal newbie) wrote down as I set up a site with Drupal 7.2. Don’t expect this to be more coherent than a typical shopping list. March 2019 update: Drupal was a huge mistake. Just in case someone out there still has a chance to [...]
Someone once told me that WWW stands for World Wide Wait. But when the page is held because the browser waits for a Google Ad to come in, that’s really annoying. I didn’t want that to happen in my site. So here’s the story about how to have the page displayed first, ads later. One [...]
Introduction This post summarizes some of my findings while attempting to make a descent single-button Firefox extension. I’ve tested the code shown below with Firefox 1.5 and 3.0 under Windows, and Firefox 3.0 under Linux, and there were zero portability issues. I would suggest reading a tutorial about toolbars and possibly Mozilla’s own tutorial about [...]