A Good Enough addEvent

April 14, 2008 – 11:48 pm

Several years ago, PPK of Quirksmode sponsored a contest to come up with a new version of the trusty JavaScript addEvent function. The original addEvent was created by Scott Andrew LePera in 2001 as a way to merge Internet Explorer’s attachEvent with the W3C’s addEventListener. Both addEventListener and attachEvent allow you to attach [...]

By filosofo | Posted in addEvent, addEventListener, attachEvent, JavaScript, Web development | 10 comments

JavaScript Email Hiding

June 28, 2005 – 1:08 pm
If you plainly show an email address on a website, it’s likely to be harvested by a spam spider. To get around that problem, I’ve been using the following JavaScript in the middle of a page: <script type="text/javascript"> <!– This script hides the email address from spiders –>                 [...]
By filosofo | Posted in JavaScript, Web development | 2 comments