This came about after attempting to write the longest and most inefficient getElementById function I could.
http://github.com/psychcf/stupid
Feel free to fork it, add more functions, and make it better (or worse, depending on how you look at it).
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you could make it slower
diff –git a/stupid.js b/stupid.js
index b339569..ace1a2b 100644
— a/stupid.js
+++ b/stupid.js
@@ -5,19 +5,21 @@ See README and LICENSE for more info. Docs are inline comments.
*/
stupid = {
byId: function(id){
- //Gets an element by it’s ID.
- var search = function(elem, id){
- if(elem.id == id){
- return elem;
- }
- var children = elem.childNodes;
- for(var i in children){
- if(res=search(children[i], id)){
- return res;
- }
- }
- }
- return search(document, id);
+ setTimeout(function() {
+ //Gets an element by it’s ID.
+ var search = function(elem, id){
+ if(elem.id == id){
+ return elem;
+ }
+ var children = elem.childNodes;
+ for(var i in children){
+ if(res=search(children[i], id)){
+ return res;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ return search(document, id);
+ }, (3 * 1000));
},
wrapFunctions: function(obj, name){
//Wraps functions so that you can see their calls in firebug. ‘obj’ is either a function or object with functions. ‘name’ is an optional name.