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CDATA inside JavaScript or style section of HTML? They are for backward compatibility. Sometimes compatibility with ancient browsers.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/23

As a back-end person, sometimes I wondered about CDATA in front-end HTML code was for, especially in JavaScript and CSS style elements.

[WayBack] HTML vs. XHTML – WHATWG Wiki explains how to be compatible with XHTML, HTML, XML based tools and older browsers:

The following code with escaping can ensure script and style elements will work in both XHTML and HTML, including older browsers.

In both cases, XML ignores the first comment and then uses the CDATA section to avoid the need for escaping special characters < and & within the rest of the contents (with subsequent JavaScript comments added within to ensure the HTML-oriented code is ignored by JavaScript).

In HTML, older browsers might display the content without the content being within a comment, so comments are used to hide this from them (while modern HTML browsers will run code inside the comments). The subsequent JavaScript comment is added to negate the text added for the sake of XHTML.

The <style> requires the /**/ comments since CSS does not support the single line ones.

   <!---->
       ...
   //-->

   <style type="text/css"><!--/*--><![CDATA[/*><!--*/
       ...
   /*]]>*/--></style>

If not concerned about much older browsers (from which one is hiding the HTML) one can use the simpler:

   //

   <style>/*<![CDATA[*/
   
   /*]]>*/</style>

Also note that the sequence “]]>” is not allowed within a CDATA section, so it cannot be used in true XHTML-embedded JavaScript without escaping.

–jeroen

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some links that helped me fiddle with iframe elements

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/16

I need to document this properly later, but here are some links I used when fiddling with iframe elements:

A few things I learned:

  • You can either put the iframe elements in different divs then arrange the divs, or put a different ID on each iframe and arrange the iframe. In either case you will need a float: left; in your style and a width: 100vw in the div around all your frames.
  • Be aware that 100% isn’t 100% out of the box: default browser styles have a margin around your page and a border around an iframe.
    So you will need to fiddle with margin and border-width inside your styles for body and iframe. Easiest is to set them to none or 0.
  • Viewport width/height works easier for me than raw %.
  • For one-off situations, I like the good old meta refresh over fiddling with JavaScript.

–jeroen

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Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal: Friends+Me Google+ Export tool.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11

A little while ago, I blogged about Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal. In the mean time, Lars has made a lot of progress exporting the community [WayBack] Delphi Developers – Google+ (which has moved to en.delphipraxis.net !).

He is a heavy user of the Friends+Me Google+ Export tool, which basically is an actively maintained web scraper with standard output targets:

[WayBack] Google Plus Exporter – Medium: Export your Google+ feeds to WordPress, Blogger, and JSON.

It does not depend on the G+ REST API: “the app is using web scraping and will keep working until the bitter end”.

Quite a bit of that information and the feedback he has is in this thread: [WayBack1/WayBack2] Hi Everyone, We’ve just released Google+ Exporter, an application that helps you to export your Google+ feeds (profile, pages, collections, communities… – Friends+Me – Google+

Of course G+ does not save the whole thread in the WayBack machine, so here it is copy-pasted (unformatted; maybe I will format it later):

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About Blocks – bl.ocks.org

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/20

[WayBack] About Blocks – bl.ocks.org is so cool:

Bl.ocks (pronounced “Blocks”) is a simple viewer for sharing code examples hosted on GitHub Gist.

…

The main source for your example is in index.html. This file can contain relative links to other files in your Gist, such as images, scripts or stylesheets. And of course you can use absolute links, such as CDN-hosted D3, jQuery or Leaflet. To explain your example, add a README.md written in Markdown. (You can omit the index.html if you just want to write, too.)

[WayBack] Code-only-Blocks are cool too:

When your Gist is missing an index.html file, will hide the example iframe but continue to display everything else.

Just compare these:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, GitHub, jQuery, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

UptimeRobot is written in PHP and runs on IIS

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/28

In [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers‏ @jpluimers: Every now and then editing @uptimerobot entries failed. Just “HTTP Error 503.4 – Service Unavailable The FastCGI pool queue is full” 1/2 I found out that UptimeRobot:

There is also a maintenance page at uptimerobot.com/maintenance.php#tvMode [Archive.is] and uptimerobot.com/maintenance.php?c-e [Archive.is]. If you get to those, then retry in ~10 minutes as sometimes it takes that long for an update to be processed.

Sometimes setting up multiple Android devices for the same uptimerobot account can be a bit of a hassle: [WayBack] Uptime Robot on Twitter: “Once logged in to the account from another Andriod device, that device will be added as an alert contact too.… “.

All in all it is still a nice tool (:

–jeroen

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Load testing a web server on Windows using the ApacheBench benchmark tool from Apache

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/08

Based on:

  1. Download the most recent x64 Apache binaries for Windows from [WayBack] Apache VC15 binaries and modules download (at the time of writing: https://www.apachelounge.com/download/VC15/binaries/httpd-2.4.34-win64-VC15.zip )
  2. Extract recursively to D:\bin
  3. Run the UltrawareController locally
  4. Run D:\bin\httpd-2.4.34-win64-VC15\Apache24\bin\ab.exe -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost:8000/foo

This will run the ab Apache benchmark tool with 1000 connections using 10 threads all doing the same http GET request at http://localhost:8000/foo

If you want to test TLS (https) connections, then you need to use the abs tool in the same directory as the ab tool supports http-only (when you still try, you get the message SSL not compiled in; no https support as explained in [WayBack] Add https support to Apache Bench on Windows – Stack Overflow).

Download location via [WayBack] windows – Is there any link to download ab Apache benchmark – Stack Overflow:

There are many more command-line parameters documented at [WayBack] ab – Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool – Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4, this is the summary:

Synopsis

ab [ -A auth-username:password ] [ -b windowsize ] [ -B local-address ] [ -c concurrency ] [ -Ccookie-name=value ] [ -d ] [ -e csv-file ] [ -f protocol ] [ -g gnuplot-file ] [ -h ] [ -Hcustom-header ] [ -i ] [ -k ] [ -l ] [ -m HTTP-method ] [ -n requests ] [ -p POST-file ] [ -Pproxy-auth-username:password ] [ -q ] [ -r ] [ -s timeout ] [ -S ] [ -t timelimit ] [ -Tcontent-type ] [ -u PUT-file ] [ -v verbosity] [ -V ] [ -w ] [ -x <table>-attributes ] [ -Xproxy[:port] ] [ -y <tr>-attributes ] [ -z <td>-attributes ] [ -Z ciphersuite ] [http[s]://]hostname[:port]/path

Via: [WayBack] apache – ab load testing – Stack Overflow

––jeroen

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Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/16

tl;dr: Finding event handlers registered using jQuery can be tricky. findHandlersJS makes finding them easy, all you need is the event type and a jQuery selector for the elements where the events might originate.

I need to invest some time in using this: [WayBack] Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret

Sourcecode: [WayBack] raw.githubusercontent.com/ruidfigueiredo/findHandlersJS/master/findEventHandlers.js

References:

Via: [WayBack] javascript – Chrome Dev Tools : view all event listeners used in the page – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Marvin the Paranoid Android moans about requests for missing pages

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/22

A great 404-page: [WayBack] Marvin the Paranoid Android moans about requests for missing pages.

The fun about the WayBack link is that it fills the first memo field it finds (:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170503071729/http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/humor/marvin-the-server-404.html

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Ruurd Pels on Twitter: “@jpluimers https://t.co/TKFlzTmQLW”

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Some links for scaling and responsive resizing iframes

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/19

As I need both responsive resizing and zooming iframes one day:

–jeroen

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Need to check out which weather widgets I can get working for a really long period of time with a refresh every minute.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/13

Need to check out which weather widgets I can get working for a really long period of time with a refresh every minute. [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “@Weerplaza ik heb via de widgets op https://t.co/DvF9tucAi9 een pagina voor mijn verstandelijk beperkte broer gemaakt op https://t.co/se9wAjJhaU Na maanden OK, gaan helaas de widgets van WeerPlaza daar niet meer goed. Komt het omdat de page-refresh (1x per minuut) te hoog is?… https://t.co/NX9XTj04Gq”

These will help me fix that:

–jeroen

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