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By: Lucien’s Techie Blog » TwitCode Challenge, the second

Lucien’s Techie Blog » TwitCode Challenge, the second — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:38:58 +0000

[...] challenge is much like the first one, but this time I have made jQuery available. I’ve also changed the structure of the target [...]

By: lucien

lucien — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:59:44 +0000

We have three entrants so far

All worthy. Two were sent via Twitter, and the 3rd via Facebook, but it met the criteria of *being able* to be sent via Twitter, so I accepted it (and since it was from a good friend )

4 days to go. How many more scripts?

If there is not too many, I’ll post them al online once it’s done.

By: pimaster

pimaster — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:24:12 +0000

So here was my first attempt that I’ve given up on:
s=v().innerHTML.split(” “);r=”";for(i=0;i

At first the colours were randomly chosen, but I tried to shorten it.

The next attempt:
v().position=’relative’;t=0;l=0;function m(){v().top=t+a()+’px’;v().left=l+a()+’px’;setTimeout(‘m()’, 200);}function a(){return Math.floor(Math.random()*3)-2;}m();function v(){return document.getElementsByTagName(‘p’)[0].style;}

By: lucien

lucien — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:26:25 +0000

This is what I posted on twitter as an example… e=this.document.getElementsByTagName(‘p’)[0].firstChild;e.data=e.data.replace(/m/gi,’#JS’);
It weight in at only 96 characters, *and* it already contains the #JS tag so it can be found. As to whether it’s “interesting”…

By: pimaster

pimaster — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:21:44 +0000

grrrr.
Currently at 217 chars for something that looks interesting.
My biggest problem is by the time I get the element, and loop over content, I’m already at 143 chars.