Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 07/11/05 06:08

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 02:56:40 +0100, "Richard Cornford"
<Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
><snip>
>> I just got through rewriting teh code from this:
><snip>
>> To this:
>>: var IE = document.all ? true : false;
><snip>
>>: while (i <= 10);
>>
>> I could probably make it even more efficient if I used case
>> instead of do/while.
>
>You mean switch? That would not help, as you would still need a loop
>round the switch statement.
>
><snip>
>> ...of course, if I did even half of that...boy it'd sorta
>> make teh code a lil hard to read, wouldn't it?
><snip>
>
>Which is why whitespace removal and Identifier shortening is done with
>software after development/debugging. Though the identifier shortening
>cannot be done by machine when the eval function is used to execute code
>as the software cannot tell when the contents of a string literal are
>going to be executed and refer to an identifier.
>
>But if the code was going to be less readable it may as well be rendered
>more efficient in the process:-
>
>var setIO, bO = [], c = 0;
>var dO = [
> '<div style="position:absolute;left:',,'px;top:',,'px;width:',,
> 'px;height:',,'px;',,'">',,'</div>'
>];
>var fO = [
> 'filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=',,
> ', sizingMethod=scale);'
>];
>var iO = ['<img src="',,'">'];
>
>var L = [0, 0, 290,640,125, 50, 51,250, 0];
>var T = [0, 0, 422, 42, 75,200,223,250, 0];
>var W = [1000,1000,45 , 90, 78,726,724,182,1000];
>var H = [600, 600, 34 ,146,280,167,119, 21, 600];
>var I = [
> "background2.png","background3.png","circuit3.png",
> "circuit2.png", "circuit1.png", "window1.png",
> "window2.png", "text.png", "background1.gif"
>];
>
>function aO(){return this.join('');}
>if(document.body.filters){
> setIO = function(a, f){(a[9] = fO)[1] = f;};
>}else{
> setIO = function(a, f){(a[11] = iO)[1] = f;};
>}
>
>bO.toString = dO.toString = fO.toString = iO.toString = aO;
>dO[1] = L[c]; dO[3] = T[c]; dO[5] = W[c]; dO[7] = H[c];
>iO[1] = I[c]; dO[11] = iO;
>bO[bO.length] = String(dO);
>dO[11] = '';
>do{
> dO[1] = L[++c]; dO[3] = T[c]; dO[5] = W[c]; dO[7] = H[c];
> setIO(dO, I[c]);
> bO[bO.length] = String(dO);
>}while(c < 7);
>dO[11] = bO; dO[9] = 'background:url('+I[8]+');';
>dO[1] = L[8]; dO[3] = T[8]; dO[5] = W[8]; dO[7] = H[8];
>document.write(dO);
>
>Richard.

I think maybe you missed my point, Richie. And OH MY GAWD, quit
obsessing over eval() already, it's startin to make ya look like a
full blown fruit kook.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
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http://www.backwater-productions.net

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