Going offline for a while

I'll be in Seoul ( South Korea, for the geographically challenged ) on holiday from 29.03.07 - 15.04.07.

Maybe I'll post a photo or two, if I randomly drop by an Internet Café.

(mis?)Using $$ReturnGeneralError as a shortcut for search

Lets the users search like this:
http://example.holidays.no/index.nsf/tokyo
Everything in regard to Tokyo

http://example.holidays.no/index.nsf/hotels/tokyo
Hotels in tokyo

http://example.holidays.no/index.nsf/restaurants/sushi
Restaurants that serve sushi


In the HTTP Head Content of $$ReturnGeneralError, add a little JavaScript to extract what is typed after the path to the database (application if you're using N8 beta ;) ).

"<script>
var db='"+@WebDbName+"';
var loc=document.location.href;
var viewToSearchIn = '($People)'; //if not specified
var newloc; 

//if searchview->error, return general error

if(loc.toLowerCase().indexOf('searchview')==-1){ 
var query=loc.split(db)[1].replace('/','');
if(query.indexOf('/')!=-1){
viewToSearchIn = query.split('/')[0];
var tmpquery = query.split('/')[1];
newloc=loc.replace(query,viewToSearchIn+'?searchview&query='+tmpquery);
}
else{
newloc=loc.replace(query,viewToSearchIn+'?searchview&query='+query);
}

query=query.replace(/s/g,'+and+');//replace whitespace with +and+

//avoid the back-button pointing to the erroneous url
document.location.replace(newloc); 
}
</script>"

Above I'm using a view called ($People), to search in. You can pass the "query" to whatever you want.

Demo application
You have to create the full-text index on the db yourself to searh on the web.

This is the same as Jake's FakeNames.nsf, but I changed the $$ReturnGeneralError form.

Tested URLs:
http://yourdomain.com/fakenames.nsf/tommy
Searches in the default view, ($People)

http://localhost/fakenames.nsf/peoplecat/abigail
Searches in the peoplecat view

http://localhost/fakenames.nsf/holidays/aus*
Searches in the holidays view

With the last view, you can also write: http://localhost/fakenames.nsf/holidays/austria
which opens the austria document (sorted view).

You can of course take this even further, with per-application mapping-documents for particular searches.

Simple way to check if a Domino Server is online

This is a small one, but I thought it was a nice example how nice and powerful events in JavaScript are.

The images (<img> tag) on the web has an onerror-event that fires if the image in the src is either an invalid image, or the image is not found (404). Every Domino server has an icons-folder. The most used icon/image is ecblank.gif, which Notes uses in many nasty ways on the web.

To check if a notes-server is online, you simply make an image tag with src=http://serverdomain.com/icons/ecblank.gif
onerror, change some text, pop an alertbox up etc.

In my simple demo, I add a css class to a a div, and replace() innerHTML with a status.

Demo (view source to see how it is done)

If you want to automate the testing of online-status on your company's servers, you can use the Windows API's UrlDownloadToFile ( example ) to download ecblank.gif. OnError - log error, send mail etc.

Bookmarklet to animate the clouds on Twitter.com


Opera/FF:
javascript:(function(){_c=0;d_=document; d_.styleSheets[0].insertRule("div, h1{opacity:0.7}",2);d_.body.style.backgroundRepeat="repeat-x"; setInterval(function(){ d_.body.style.backgroundPosition=(_c++)+"px top"; },40);})()

IE:
javascript:(function(){_c=0; d_=document;d_.styleSheets[0].addRule("div","filter:alpha(opacity=70)}",2); d_.body.style.backgroundRepeat="repeat-x";setInterval(function(){ d_.body.style.backgroundPosition=(_c++)+"px top";},40);})()


Test it out on http://www.twitter.com

It makes the content partly transparent, and the clouds flow towards the right.

The reason that I made this useless bookmarklet is that I liked the clouds when they were positionary, but I wanted to see how they looked moving about.

The animation is quite CPU-intensive.. Not sure how to optimize this..

Breaking the count-limit in views on the web

I thought I'd sit this Thursday out, but too much free time I guess.

First, open the demo-db in notes.
Click Create test-documents (creates 5001 documents).
Open the view on the web.
A counter will tell how many "documents" currently fetched

The parsing of the HTML is quite CPU-intensive.
On my PC it takes IE7 about 15 seconds, and FF about 20 seconds to get all 5001 items.

There are more elegant ways of getting more documents than the server-limit. With this method, you can control the layout from the view, and you don't have to mess about with XML or JSON.

If someone can provide me with a more complex database with 1500+ (non-sensitive) documents, I can try to add browser-side click-to-sort columns.

Demo-db: NoCountLimit.zip

Screenshots:

Top


Bottom

Greasemonkey script: Select text to make temporary link

Not the most impressive code (I still don't understand closures in JS fully), but it works with what I've tested it on..

Select a text-link, and a temporary pop-up with a real link is created from the selection. Se picture at the end.

Tested in Opera 9.x (download/put it in the user-script folder) and FireFox 2.0.

The script

Example URLs:
www.google.com
www.google.com/analytics



Opera - User JS
About greasemonkey

Update 1: I've found some sites it doesn't work on. I will try to find out the difference between sites that work, and sites that don't. Probably JS-libs used on the sites messing with my script. :8

Update2: I've no rewritten the script so that is doesn't add any symbols to the global namespace.

Result of running the script through JSLint:
Global: document (?), setTimeout (?), window (?)