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Rethinking $.fn.sendkeys

See the demo. See the source code, which depends on bililiteRange. Modern browsers won't let synthetic events (triggered with dispatchEvent) execute their default actions (meaning the action that would occur if the event was triggered by a user action). The Event object has a read-only field called isTrusted that is false for anything but unmodified […]

2015 01 14 Danny jQuery Comments (9)

bililiteRange.sendkeys

bililiteRange.text() works well to insert text into ranges, but I wanted to be able to simulate other keys, ala Microsoft's SendKeys. bililiteRange.sendkeys() does exactly that. It basically executes text(string, 'end') but interprets any text between braces ('{key}') as a command representing a special key. For security reasons, the browser won't let you do anything outside […]

2015 01 14 Danny bililiteRange Comments (0)

Rethinking $.keymap

Download the code. See the demo. See the hotkeys demo. Dealing with keydown events is a pain, since the event object has always encoded the key as an arbitrary numeric code, so any program that deals with key-related events has something like: var charcodes = { 32 : ' ', 8 : 'Backspace', 20 : […]

2015 01 12 Danny jQuery Comments (0)

Javascript Syntax-Highlighting Code Editor

I suppose everyone knows about this, but I just discovered CodeMirror, a javascript, drop-in (not dependent on any other library) text editor that does syntax highlighting. It's smooth and fast. I'm still going to be playing with my editor (as part of the bililiteRange package), since it's been a useful learning experience, but if you […]

2014 05 15 Danny Comments (0)

New bililiteRange plugin, ex

There have been lots of times that I've wanted to be able to keep my hand on the keyboard when editing, rather than running off to the mouse all the time. There's an implementation of VIM in Javascript but I figured I would learn something by doing it myself. My goal is vi, not vim, […]
2014 04 03 Danny bililiteRange Comments (0)

IE11 bug with Ranges

Try the demo in Internet Explorer 11 and in a real browser. IE now implements Range objects, representing a range of text that may span several elements. It's the basis for the standards-based part of bililiteRange. And it almost works. It's a little flaky: inserting text that contains '\n' without '\r', what I consider the […]
2014 03 20 Danny Comments (0)

Better Javascript testing

Evidently I'm doing test-driven development wrong. Or at least it could be easier. I will have to look at Google's karma to automate the testing (rather than running the test suite in each browser individually). That of course means I need to start using Node's npm package manager (which I probably should anyway, since all […]
2014 03 18 Danny Comments (0)

IE 11 bugs

Turns out Internet Explorer is even worse than imagined. It's right at the bottom of the Uncanny Valley--close enough to a real browser to make it look like it works, but lots of near-impossible-to-track-down bugs that make life miserable. Turns out that Node.normalize is broken (see the bug reports and a workaround), so I had […]

2014 03 12 Danny bililiteRange Comments (0)

Internet Explorer 11 Mysteries

Trying to debug bililiteRange in IE11; some of the problems were easily fixed with .replace(/\r/g, '') liberally scattered about, since IE really likes its return characters in <div>s (anything that is not a <textarea> or an <input> and will add them even if I am just inserting a newline. I'm still getting a WrongDocumentError on […]

2014 03 11 Danny Comments (0)

bililiteRange and Internet Explorer 11

Well, I ran the test code for bililiteRange and got "132 assertions of 151 passed, 19 failed." Better than none passed, I suppose, but it means I've got some work ahead of me. Or I could just give up on IE, but IE11 is supposed to be standards-compliant, so the errors might actually reflect a […]

2014 03 10 Danny bililiteRange Comments (1)