High Performance Web Sites: Crockford, webhosting, online dating, JSON, alert

jeremyw · on Dec 10, 2009

Genius. I love the moment of brain-freeze: Wait, how do I remove the .. I can't .. oh!

nym · on Dec 10, 2009

Crockford is such a lovable asshole.

mnemonik · on Dec 10, 2009

Crockford is not the asshole at all in this situation! He kindly has written a json encoder/decoder and given it away for free (and is basically the reason why json is popular today) and these online booty call assholes (note that they are the assholes in this situation) are paying him back by putting all the load on his servers while they reap the benefits of his hard work.

Edit: Maybe I'm overreacting to your comment, but this stuff just makes me angry.

nym · on Dec 10, 2009

Don't take it so seriously, I think Crockford is awesome, and has every right to include an alert into his script. I'm just sore from all those times JSLint hurt my feelings sniff sniff

alecco · on Dec 10, 2009

I admire Crockford, but couldn't he just block by HTTP referrer with a simple .htaccess file?

RyanMcGreal · on Dec 10, 2009

You have to admit that Crockford's method is more fun.

iamwil · on Dec 10, 2009

And more people learn their lesson.

RyanMcGreal · on Dec 10, 2009

And a single, one-time fix takes care of everyone.

bumblebird · on Dec 10, 2009

  <script>
   oldalert = window.alert;
   window.alert = function() {};
  </script>
  <script src="http://json.org/json.js"></script>
  <script>
   window.alert = oldalert;
  </script>

ionfish · on Dec 10, 2009

If someone knows enough to do that, they probably also know to copy the file onto their own server.

RyanMcGreal · on Dec 11, 2009

Heh. I didn't know you could do that.

ionfish · on Dec 11, 2009

That's how jQuery.noConflict() works.

http://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L333...

veemjeem · on Dec 11, 2009

Crockford would then reply with: (inside his js file)

  window.location = "http://www.meatspin.com"; //that'll teach em

Tichy · on Dec 10, 2009

I don't think that would have made him many friends.

nym · on Dec 11, 2009

Douglas Crockford keeps making so many new friends that when he loops on CROCKFORD.friends.length, he creates an infinite loop.