Re: Barewords in on* attributes, redux (also, find() and company)

This is great! Thanks for doing this. Can we also get stats. on new Node
methods like append, remove, etc...?

- Ryosuke

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> John Jensen here at Mozilla has been doing some web crawling trying to
> find what barewords are used in on* attributes.
>
> What I have so far as a result is a list of about 1.7 million barewords
> used across several tens of thousands of pages.  If people are interested
> in the exact methodology, I can probably get a description. I'm working on
> making sure that it's ok for me to post the data in its entirety so you can
> all look as well.  Assuming it is (very likely), where's a good place to
> stick a 7MB compressed file?
>
> In any case, for this particular data set there are no hits on "findAll"
> or "matches" (good!), but there are two hits on "find" as a bareword in an
> on* attribute.  Specifically:
>
> 1)  http://otc-pif.rbc.ru/pif_**calculator/calculator.jsp<http://otc-pif.rbc.ru/pif_calculator/calculator.jsp>has onclick="find(document.
> **getElementById(current + 'List').children, searchString.value)"
>
> 2)  http://bookmark.people.com.cn/**index.html<http://bookmark.people.com.cn/index.html>has onclick="find()"
>
> These would both obviously get broken by the proposed find() API, unless
> we actually do some sort of workaround for this problem...
>
> -Boris
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