As developers, we have a bunch of stupendous stories about the time spent debugging legacy code. This blog is designed to highlight some of the most annoying / interesting / hair-rising / hilarious solutions of the past.
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Showing posts with label JavaScript. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Simulating mouse button hold
... is the easiest using a simple recursive function which continuously does clicking, thought Mr. Legacy Coder, and found out, that the best jQuery implementation for this would be onclick="$(this).click();". Too bad, that this throws a Maximum call stack size exceeded error. Yea, there's always hope, that such script execution ends in a finite time. The key element of legacy code is always Magic. But this came to his mind, too - turns out from the following few lines: preventDefault() called after 3000 milliseconds timeout. #genius
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