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xmlhttp with testing for various ie versions

var xmlHTTP = getXMLHTTP();

if (xmlHTTP) {
    xmlHTTP.async = false;
    xmlHTTP.open('get', 'http://google.com/');
    xmlHTTP.send(null);

    if (xmlHTTP.status == 200) {
        var data = xmlHTTP.responseText;
    }
}

function getXMLHTTP()
{
    if ((typeof XMLHttpRequest) != "undefined") {
        /* XMLHTTPRequest present, use that */
        return new XMLHttpRequest();
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        /*  there are several versions of IE's Active X control, use the most recent one available */
        var xmlVersions = ["MSXML2.XMLHttp.5.0",
                           "MSXML2.XMLHttp.4.0",
                           "MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0",
                           "MSXML2.XMLHttp",
                           "Microsoft.XMLHTTP"];

        for (var x = 0; x < xmlVersions.length; x++) {
            try {
                var xmlHTTP = new ActiveXObject(xmlVersions[x]);
                return xmlHTTP;     
            } catch (e) {
                //continue looping
            }
        }
    }

    /* if none of that worked, return false, to indicate failure */
    return false;
}

javascript fast loop

var i = arr.length; while (i--) {}

QueryString Javascript

function qs() {
	var data = [];
	this.Read = function() 
	{
		var aPairs, aTmp;
		var queryString = new String(window.location.search);
		queryString = queryString.substr(1, queryString.length); //remove "?"
		aPairs = queryString.split("&");	
		
		for (var i=0 ; i<aPairs.length; i++)
		{
			aTmp = aPairs[i].split("=");
			data[aTmp[0]] = aTmp[1];
		}
	}
	
	this.GetValue = function( key )
	{
		return data[key];
	}
	this.SetValue = function( key, value )
	{
		if (value == null)
			delete data[key];
		else 
			data[key] = value;
	}
	this.ToString = function()
	{
		var queryString = new String(""); 
		
		for (var key in data)
		{	
			if (queryString != "")
				queryString += "&"
			if (data[key])
				queryString += key + "=" + data[key];		
		}
		if (queryString.length > 0)
			return "?" + queryString;
		else
			return queryString;
	}
	this.Clear = function()
	{
		delete data;
		data = [];
	}
}

javascript value of selected option

// what is the value of the selected option?

this.options[this.selectedIndex].value

Print a PDF file using the Acrobat Pro Javascript Console in OS X

// Print a PDF file using the Acrobat Javascript Console
// Press Command J to bring up the console in Acrobat
// After typing your code in the console, select it and press Control Enter to execute
// Uses current Page Setup when printing

var myDoc;

myDoc = app.openDoc("/Users/yourusername/Desktop/outputfolder/filename.pdf");
myDoc.print({bUI : false});
myDoc.closeDoc();

Mozilla export coordinates to a .kml file (for Google Earth)

Usage:
// define a location hash:
var location = {
    'name':'Tokyo',
    'latitude':35.65444,
    'longitude':139.74472
    // Other data: 
    //'heading' : 0 ,
    //'tilt' : 0 ,
    //'range':  1000000 
}
// choose a name for your .kml file:
var myFileName = 'my_geo.kml';

// now use them to force opening a .kml file:
$google.openKMLFile(location,myFileName);

Will output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
<Document>
<Placemark>
<name>Tokyo</name> 
<Point>
<altitudeMode>relativeToGround</altitudeMode> 
<coordinates>139.74472,35.65444,0</coordinates> 
</Point>
<LookAt>
<heading>0</heading> 
<tilt>0</tilt> 
<range>1000000</range> 
<latitude>35.65444</latitude> 
<longitude>139.74472</longitude> 
</LookAt>
</Placemark>
</Document>
</kml>


Helper library :
var $google = { 
	
	_exampleLocation : { 
		'name':'Tokyo',
		'latitude':35.65444,
		'longitude':139.74472
		// Other data: 
		//'heading' : 0 ,
		//'tilt' : 0 ,
		//'range':  1000000 
	},
	
	_CC : Components.classes,
	
	_CI : Components.interfaces,
	
	_getDOMImpl : function(){
		if (this._domImpl == null){
			this._domImpl = this._CC["@mozilla.org/xmlextras/domparser;1"].createInstance(this._CI.nsIDOMParser).parseFromString("<foo/>", "text/xml").implementation;
		}
		return this._domImpl;
	},
	
	_stringToTmpFile: function(dataString, charset, tmpFileName) {
		var unicodeConverter = this._CC["@mozilla.org/intl/scriptableunicodeconverter"].createInstance(this._CI.nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter);
		unicodeConverter.charset = charset;
		var convertedString = unicodeConverter.ConvertFromUnicode(dataString);
				
		var tmpFile = this._CC["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].getService(this._CI.nsIProperties).get("TmpD", this._CI.nsILocalFile);
									 
		tmpFile.append(tmpFileName);
		tmpFile.createUnique(this._CI.nsIFile.NORMAL_FILE_TYPE, 0664);
	
		var outStream = this._CC["@mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1"].createInstance(this._CI.nsIFileOutputStream);

		outStream.init(tmpFile, 0x02 | 0x08 | 0x20, 0664, 0);
		outStream.write(convertedString, convertedString.length);
				
		var finalData = unicodeConverter.Finish();
		if (finalData.length > 0) {
			outStream.write(finalData, finalData.length);
		}
		outStream.close(); 
		
		return tmpFile ; 
	},
	
	openKMLFile : function(location,fileName) {
		
		if (!location || location == '') {  location = this._exampleLocation ; }
			
		var doc = this._getDOMImpl().createDocument("http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0", "kml", null);
				
		var kmlDocument = doc.createElement("Document");
		doc.documentElement.appendChild(kmlDocument);
		
		var kmlPlacemark = doc.createElement("Placemark")
		kmlDocument.appendChild(kmlPlacemark);
		
		var kmlName = doc.createElement("name");
		kmlPlacemark.appendChild(kmlName);	
		
		var kmlPoint = doc.createElement("Point");
		kmlPlacemark.appendChild(kmlPoint);

		var kmlAltitudeMode = doc.createElement("altitudeMode");
		kmlPoint.appendChild(kmlAltitudeMode);
		
		var kmlCoordinates = doc.createElement("coordinates");
		kmlPoint.appendChild(kmlCoordinates);
		
		var kmlLookAt = doc.createElement("LookAt");
		kmlPlacemark.appendChild(kmlLookAt);

		var kmlHeading = doc.createElement("heading");
		kmlLookAt.appendChild(kmlHeading);

		var kmlTilt = doc.createElement("tilt");
		kmlLookAt.appendChild(kmlTilt);
		
		var kmlRange = doc.createElement("range");
		kmlLookAt.appendChild(kmlRange);
		
		var kmlLatitude = doc.createElement("latitude");
		kmlLookAt.appendChild(kmlLatitude);
		
		var kmlLongitude = doc.createElement("longitude");
		kmlLookAt.appendChild(kmlLongitude);
	
		kmlName.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(location.name));
		kmlAltitudeMode.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("relativeToGround"));
		kmlCoordinates.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(location.longitude + "," + location.latitude + ",0"));	
		kmlHeading.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(location.heading ? location.heading : '0'));
		kmlTilt.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(location.tilt ? location.tilt : '0'));
		kmlRange.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(location.range ? location.range : '1000000'));
		kmlLatitude.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(location.latitude));
		kmlLongitude.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(location.longitude));		
		
		var serializer = this._CC["@mozilla.org/xmlextras/xmlserializer;1"].createInstance(this._CI.nsIDOMSerializer);
		var kmlString = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' + serializer.serializeToString(doc);

		var kmlFile = this._stringToTmpFile(kmlString, "UTF-8", fileName);
		kmlFile.launch();
		
	}
	
}

Round.. when there is no round

I needed a math.round in Javascript, there was none available in my environment... a new japanese phone
function Round(number){
	newnumber=number*10;
	remainder=newnumber%10;
	newnumber-=remainder;
	if(remainder>5){
		newnumber+=10;
	}
	newnumber=newnumber/10;
	if(newnumber%1!=0){
		newnumber=Round(newnumber*10)/10
	}
	return newnumber;
}

ie. alert (Round(66.3523)) should give 66

xpath helper function

function $xpath(q,doc) { if (!doc || doc == '') {doc = document ; } return doc.evaluate(q, doc,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,null); }

jQuery namespaced event binding/unbinding

// from a comment by Steven Bristol on errtheblog.com

I just wanted to share a really killer event handling tidbit:

Generally you do something like:

jQuery(’.class’).click(function(){//whatever});


Everyone knows this can be rewritten as:

jQuery(’.class’).bind(‘click’, function(){//whatever});


But sometimes you need to unbind something:

jQuery(’.class’).unbind(‘click’, function(){//});


The problem with this is that it will unbind all the click events, not just yours. So if multiple bits of javascript have a click event handler for ’.class’, unbinding removes them all. (This is because there is no way to identify an anonymous function.)

But jQuery is so good that there is a way to handle this: Namespacing your events:

jQuery(’.class’).bind(‘click.namespace’, function(){//}); 
jQuery(’.class’).unbind(‘click.namespace’);


or for reinitializing an element added via ajax:

jQuery(’.class’)unbind(‘click.namespace’).bind(‘click.namespace’, function(){//});

jQuery and Rails' respond_to

// Just throw this at the bottom of your application.js and you’re good to go: all jQuery ajax requests will trigger the wants.js block of your respond_to declaration, exactly like you’d expect. Enjoy.
// via: http://ozmm.org/posts/jquery_and_respond_to.html

jQuery.ajaxSetup({beforeSend’: function(xhr) {xhr.setRequestHeader(“Accept”,text/javascript”)} })