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mathiasbynens / jquery.insertAtCaret.js
Created March 9, 2010 11:13
jQuery insertAtCaret plugin
// I found this somewhere on the intertubes, and optimized it
$.fn.insertAtCaret = function(myValue) {
return this.each(function() {
var me = this;
if (document.selection) { // IE
me.focus();
sel = document.selection.createRange();
sel.text = myValue;
me.focus();
} else if (me.selectionStart || me.selectionStart == '0') { // Real browsers
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mathiasbynens / README.md
Last active March 4, 2025 11:35
Superfish certificate
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mathiasbynens / appify
Created November 12, 2010 13:46 — forked from subtleGradient/appify
appify — create the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.
Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:
`basename "$0"` my-script.sh
// Original code from http://www.blog.highub.com/mobile-2/a-fix-for-iphone-viewport-scale-bug/
var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
var i;
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) {
for (i=0; i<metas.length; i++) {
if (metas[i].name == "viewport") {
metas[i].content = "width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0";
}
}
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mathiasbynens / deterministic-math-random.js
Last active February 11, 2025 04:18
Here’s a 100% deterministic (predictable) alternative to `Math.random`. Useful when benchmarking.
// Here’s a 100% deterministic alternative to `Math.random`. Google’s V8 and
// Octane benchmark suites use this to ensure predictable results.
Math.random = (function() {
var seed = 0x2F6E2B1;
return function() {
// Robert Jenkins’ 32 bit integer hash function
seed = ((seed + 0x7ED55D16) + (seed << 12)) & 0xFFFFFFFF;
seed = ((seed ^ 0xC761C23C) ^ (seed >>> 19)) & 0xFFFFFFFF;
seed = ((seed + 0x165667B1) + (seed << 5)) & 0xFFFFFFFF;
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mathiasbynens / web-platform-status-links.md
Last active February 8, 2025 12:35
Web platform status links
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=226801
url='https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/master/http/transport_security_state_static.json?format=TEXT';
curl -#s "${url}" | \
base64 --decode | \
sed '/^ *\/\// d' | \
sed '/^\s*$/d' > hsts.json;
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mathiasbynens / change-favicon.js
Created June 7, 2010 12:41
Dynamically changing favicons with JavaScript
/*!
* Dynamically changing favicons with JavaScript
* Works in all A-grade browsers except Safari and Internet Explorer
* Demo: http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/dynamic-favicons
*/
// HTML5™, baby! http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/document-head
document.head || (document.head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]);
function changeFavicon(src) {
/*!
* JavaScript function to calculate the destination point given start point latitude / longitude (numeric degrees), bearing (numeric degrees) and distance (in m).
*
* Original scripts by Chris Veness
* Taken from http://movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty-direct.html and optimized / cleaned up by Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
* Based on the Vincenty direct formula by T. Vincenty, “Direct and Inverse Solutions of Geodesics on the Ellipsoid with application of nested equations”, Survey Review, vol XXII no 176, 1975 <http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf>
*/
function toRad(n) {
return n * Math.PI / 180;
};
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mathiasbynens / setZeroTimeout.js
Created September 14, 2010 22:23
Cross-browser-compatible setZeroTimeout
/*! Cross-browser-compatible setZeroTimeout
*
* I took the original setZeroTimeout and made it cross-browser-compatible, using setTimeout(fn, 0) as a fallback in case postMessage is not supported.
* Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
* See <http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/settimeout-onload>
*
* Copyright statement below:
*
* See <http://dbaron.org/log/20100309-faster-timeouts>
* By L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>, 2010-03-07, 2010-03-09