More tales from work

[ceramicpig]

Here's some amusing code that I wrote a month or so ago. It's Perl, printing out HTML:

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[egometry]

Mmm. Code masturbation.

I wonder if that's ever useful.

[erdrick]

I thought it was called "Job Security".

[tsireal]

As I know only basic javascript, (and hate it with a passion normally reserved for ichy shirt tags), please tell me what the code does... I think I figured it out, but what I think makes no sense... (Likes Java better)

[tsireal]

I actually hate Java AND Javascript! :D

Anyway, the explanation of it is kind of lengthy and requires some hand-waving and explanation of the page layout. The quick version is that I'm asynchronously loading a script into a table cell which immediately removes itself from the table.

Long live AJAX!

[tsireal]

lol

[stylishpants]

Long live the DOM!