[Javascript] Replacing link text with random string of equivalentsize...

[Webber, Ward]

If you don't mind if the random text includes Latin characters (no
numbers, unfortunately), you could try "lorem ipsum," the quasi-Latin
used as an unreadable substitute for text. Several sites discuss it;
here's one, and you can Google for others: http://www.lipsum.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Mauer [mailto:me at telephag.nu] 
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 9:19 AM
To: javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject: [Javascript] Replacing link text with random string of
equivalentsize...


Hi all,

I have a challenge for the community here. I need a possibly simple, 
possibly complex, but definitely not common JavaScript.

Basically, I'm making a website for an exhibition and symposium on the 
power and pathologies of networks, with a focus on computer viruses / 
viral outbreaks. Here's an early mockup...

http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/ppn/mockups/ppn7.html

I want a JavaScript that basically takes paragraph text, links, 
whatever -- and on rollover, replaces it on-the-fly with an equivalent 
number of random characters and numbers with a roughly equivalent 
amount of spaces (basically gibberish -- what an Arabic or Chinese 
language site looks like when you don't have the proper font). When the 
user moves their mouse out of the particular piece of text (contained 
by paragraphs or h3 tags or whatever), it's replaced with the original 
text. I imagine this will take some serious mucking about and parsing 
in the JavaScript DOM. Though, if it were just links, perhaps the scope 
of the problem would be less?

The general idea is to give the impression that the site is in flux, 
you could mess it up at any moment, ultimately expressing the delicacy 
and manipulability of data.

I'd need the script in by next Wednesday (August 11), preferably 
sooner. I can offer a small amount of money (in the realm of $50 to 
$150 depending on the scope of the problem).

Some articles I think might help get his/her juices flowing:
http://www.felgall.com/jstip42.htm
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/number/random.html
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/domparse.html

Thanks,

Ben

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Ben Mauer
Sole Proprietor, Mantled
ben at mantled.com
617.283.5764
AIM telephag

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