Playing with Programs

I’m brushing up on basic javascript.

I stumbled across links to kryogenix. Kryogenix has some very unobtrusive ways to do sortable tables, search keyword highlighting and explorer like tree views and more. Each of them requiring only that you include a javascript file, add a few lines of CSS stylesheet code, and (for the tree view and the table), add a “class” to one table or list. They are unobtrusive, in that your site will still work if javascript is disabled, or your browser does not support everything.

A simple explanation for adding and removing elements on a web page (using document object model (DOM) and javascript): javascript tutorial – dom nodes and tree .

The reason I’m brushing up on javascript, is that I want to write integration tests with FireWatir for pages that have a TinyMCE editor in them. I did an experiment and had it working before, I threw it away accidentally and have to re-create it. Throwing something away is a good way to really learn something (although it takes more time…). So the second time, I’m taking the time to understand more about modifying pages with javascript, documenting my trail for the next time, and save the results in subversion…