CSS :target

Borgar — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:24:23 +0000

jQuery (or Sizzle) supports :target in browsers where it runs querySelectorAll to handle the work. In older browsers, it doesn’t offer fallback support. I guess that this is simply because :target is such an uncommon selector?

I have no idea why you would want to use it, but because I have this selector extension and nowhere to put it, here it is:

jQuery.expr[':'].target = function ( a, h ) {
  return (a.id && (h = document.location.hash) && h === '#' + a.id)
};

Updated 6. aug. 2009: Optimized by @maranomynet

JSON for old PHP installations

Borgar — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:30:07 +0000

I use PHP a lot. Mostly to work with existing products, or to create mockups of things that will get replaced with something else later.

The great thing about PHP is that it is present in some form on nearly all servers. If you’re careful to avoid version 5 features then you can pretty much expect your code to run wherever.

For a recent prototype I needed JSON (which wasn’t introduced to PHP until version 5) on a 4.3 system. Being a relentless do-it-yourself’er I have written a tiny JSON functionality “library” for older versions of PHP.

It’s about 5k of mostly comments. Available under MIT licence from Google code. Have fun.

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CSS :target

JSON for old PHP installations