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Putting jqLSAdmin together, Part 2
0In the previous post, I went through some of the infrastructure of this little project. The stuff-I-had-to-figure-out-first stuff that without it the rest of the project would have been doomed from the beginning. In this second post, I will go through some of the code I used to build it and talk about what the next steps for this will be. I’ll also post the link to the unminified source here, and invite comments and criticisms on ways to improve this.
Putting jqLSAdmin together, Part 1
0This post is all about explaining some of the thought processes that went into the bookmarklet for jqLSAdmin, the jQuery Local Storage Admin. It’s my fervent hope that after you read this, you’ll doubt my sanity just slightly less. I can’t possibly hope to eradicate that doubt, but anything which reduces it can only be a good thing. Right?
Lifting the Lid on localStorage
2In my last post, I announced that I was working on a bookmarklet for accessing localStorage. Undoubtedly, I didn’t expect it to take me another four days to get the time to be able to put it together, but at long last Saturday arrived and I had the time and energy to put into making this a reality.
So, for the purposes of brevity, this post is simply going to be the bookmarklet itself, and some brief explanation of how to use it. I will also type up a ‘why the heck did I build it that way’ post and get into the guts of the raw(un-minified) code.
I have (perhaps presumptuously) named this the jqLSAdmin. The ‘jq’ is because I use jQuery in it. The ‘LS’ denotes localStorage, and the ‘Admin’ part is because you can ‘administer’ your localStorage through the interface.
Bookmarklet: » jqLSAdmin «
Drag the bookmarklet up to your favorites bar in your browser of choice. When you are on a page where you would like to interact with the localStorage on that page, just click it. You will get a lightbox overlay on the page with the key/value pairs of your localStorage displayed. At the bottom of the list will be text boxes where you can add new values to localStorage.
For those of you who may be concerned, I dynamically load in jQuery if it’s not already on the page, and if I did load it in I remove it when the bookmarklet is closed. I haven’t really worked the kinks out of noConflict() yet, so that isn’t handled in this release of this tool. However, as I experiment a bit further (or if someone wants to tackle it once I get the unminified code posted up), then please feel free.
Enjoy. Feedback is always appreciated.
