Scott’s Ramblings

Here’s a method to easily insert footnotes into a website using Javascript. It degrades nicely when Javascript and/or CSS are not available for whatever reason (RSS springs to mind).

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After meaning to do so for a very long time, I’ve finally updated my time calculator. The result is Time Calculator 2. It has a completely new, intuitive, user interface, as well as a new, better back end.

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I’ve written a Javascript bookmark that allows the user to find HTML elements with a given ID. This is handy for debugging HTML code. I’ve tested it in Firefox 1.0.4, but it should work in any Firefox/Mozilla version or any recent version of other browsers that allow Javascript bookmarks. This script doesn’t work in Internet Explorer.

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I’ve written a Javascript function that transparently hides your e-mail address from spambots—provided that spambots don’t execute Javascript. It doesn’t impact the end user in most cases. (This is a cross-post from my website.)

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