Although it has been abused with an enthusiasm that borders on the insane, there are good reasons to use the Notifications API in your web apps. For example, you write a mail client that allows the user to request notifications for key contacts… if they are browsing your web-based app, they should get notifications. To […]
This is a note-to-future-self as I just threw together a little script to test images on a web page. Specifically, it highlights: Images that are not lazy loaded Images that are much bigger than their display size As images sizes aren’t reliable until the image is displayed, you will need to run it if your […]
This is a quick exploration of how to use Edge Dev Tools to investigate JavaScript execution time issues. We’ll quickly run a performance profile and identify what part of the JavaScript is the “most responsible” for any performance issues. The idea is to show just the quickest way to find the source of an issue, […]
It is pretty well known these days that fiddling with innerHTML is terribly inefficient. It triggers serialization, and it can result in invalid markup. Nevertheless, you’ll still find this being done in many applications. elem.innerHTML = elem.innerHTML + ‘<a href=”https://www.example.com”>Visit Example Dot Com</a>’; // or elem.innerHTML += ‘<a href=”https://www.example.com”>Visit Example Dot Com</a>’; You can avoid […]
This is just a little script I needed to use to increase text size conditionally. It only increases text below a minimum size and leaves everything else. (function () { var minFontSize = function () { $(“.content-zone *”).each(function () { var $this = $(this); if (parseInt($this.css(“fontSize”), 10) < 16) { $this.css({ “font-size”: “16px” }); } […]
There are many reasons for manipulating variables in JMeter, especially when you are loading data from a CSV data set config element. You might want to trim a JMeter variable, or grab just a substring. In all of these cases, your existing knowledge of JavaScript can come to the rescue. Wherever you were about to […]
Adobe Analytics can sometimes be a bit of an enigma, so people often turn to browser extensions to help them with debugging Adobe Analytics. However, for those of us who spend most of our lives in browser tools; there’s a simple way to get x-ray vision into what Analytics is thinking. Let’s get straight down […]
A common problem with images, especially if they are user-generated, is that they don’t have the correct aspect ratio for their intended purpose. Also, as we re-flow pages for many different devices, we often want the image to work with different aspect ratios. This is where the CSS object-fit property comes in very useful. There […]
If you have been writing websites or web apps for any length of time, you will almost certainly have implemented some form of lazy-loading using JavaScript. I recently worked on a web app that implemented a search that benefitted to the tune of half-a-gig by deferring the loading of images until those images were actually […]
This is the JavaScript edition, but I also have a C# method to remove special characters diacritic marks. I was working on a search system that needed to simplify the strings for comparison. It needed to compare the text regardless of special characters (diacritic marks) or casing. The following function breaks the special characters into […]