[Javascript] Replacing link text with random string of equivalent size...

[Flavio Gomes]

ehehehehe.. lol
 well, this message is not pvt anymore

Flavio Gomes
flavio at economisa.com.br



Flavio Gomes wrote:

> This Message is PVT.
>
> Ben, I had it done earlier in Mozilla.. but as always I had some 
> problems with Internet Explorer. It's working now.
>   I'm sending you a test version, if you tell me that's ok, then we 
> talk about that little $$$ stuff, ok?
>
> Ps.: there are two version, the first testFirst.htm doesnt check if 
> the character replaced is a number or alpha and is case insensitive, 
> and testSecond.htm is case sensitive and checks if is it a number.
>
> Regards,
>
> Flavio Gomes
> flavio at economisa.com.br
>
>
>
> Ben Mauer wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Ben Mauer
>> Sole Proprietor, Mantled
>> ben at mantled.com
>> 617.283.5764
>> AIM telephag
>
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> I got Some text Inside, can you see?
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> Let's try out some numbers... 987455 4432.34,34545!?
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> what about lower case letters?
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> I got Some text Inside, can you see?
>
> Let's try out some numbers... 987455 4432.34,34545!?
>
> what about lower case letters?
>
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