Accidentally Broken, Accidentally Fixed
I managed to fix the problem, accidentally.
Short-Sighted Programming
Today a customer informed me that Slider wasn’t working properly on his webpage. They gave me the URL to the problem page, and for a page with a working (properly) version of Slider.
Initially I was perplexed, but it dawned on me that the code for parsing out the cell numbers can only parse single-digit numbers.
A classic case of short-sighted programming.
See the cells’ class attribute was put together like this:
cell + the cell’s number + unique ID.
Examples:
cell2page0
cell9page102
cell10page0
Code for parsing out the cell’s number:
1 | parseInt(jQuery(peeker).attr("class").substring(4,5)) |
Notice that it only gets one character.
To work correctly, two things needed to be changed.
First, I had to change the way the cells’ class attribute is put together:
cell + unique ID + the cell’s number
Second, the javascript for parsing out the number:
1 | parseInt(jQuery(peeker).attr("class").substring(("cell" + length of cell + unique ID),(length of class attribute))) |
The updated plugin is available here: Slider 0.95b
I’m confident that I’ve fixed the problem, but if I haven’t don’t hesitate to let me know!
Incidentally, the customer’s website is extremely well done, go and check it out!
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