I’ve got a bit of JavaScript in my site: Quicktags, Comment Preview, Catchpa and Gravatars, just to name a few of the recent additions.
I’ve also got some pretty hairy Smarty Code thrown in there too. Some of it would be better off to be replaced by JavaScript. The two main examples of this are the Time Since code (eg: 22 hours, 34 minutes after the fact), and the Human Time code (Posted late at night).
I’ve actually rewritten pretty much all of this code, and packaged it all up into one JavaScript, so I can just let other people include one line of code, with some others setting up what features they want, rather than having to wade through the code and find where to add bits.
At the moment, most of it is quite functional, but would still require the use of a whole bunch of inline scripting. I’m working to replace this with functions that automatically run after the page has loaded (or, perhaps even better, when the main page has loaded, but before it displays?).
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