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Fun with DOMMouseScroll

I put together a demo of incrementing numbers in URLs by scrolling.

Hopefully it's not considered a bug that I can use rangeOffset for a text node "inside" a textbox ;) Trying to access rangeParent throws a security exception.

This could be used by an extension like URL Flipper as a shortcut for changing specific numbers in URLs.

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3 Responses to “Fun with DOMMouseScroll”

  1. Seamus Says:
    November 7th, 2009 at 7:10 am

    Very cool. You could extend upon it and add date support for URLs (…/2009/11/06/…) like many blog addresses use.

  2. Neil Rashbrook Says:
    November 11th, 2009 at 3:50 am

    This might not be a problem in an extension, but rangeOffset breaks if your text box contains a newline, due to the way we currently create nodes.

  3. Neil Rashbrook Says:
    November 11th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    That should be <br> nodes, of course…