define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true);{"id":28,"date":"2007-09-08T02:05:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T07:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unfocus.com\/projects\/2007\/09\/08\/share-this-sans-prototypejs\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T02:05:49","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T07:05:49","slug":"share-this-sans-prototypejs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unfocus.com\/2007\/09\/08\/share-this-sans-prototypejs\/","title":{"rendered":"Share This sans-prototype.js"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a planed to replace the use of Prototype.js<\/a> in the Share This<\/a> WordPress<\/a> plugin, since that was the only plugin using it. Prototype is quite large, and my server isn’t currently set up to gzip javascript files. I started to replace it with jQuery<\/a>, and add an option to switch between the two. I figured it’d be a good way to help make the blog load more quickly if I make sure all the plugins were using the same (smaller) JavaScript framework.<\/p>\n

I found along the way that Share This doesn’t actually use very much of Prototype.js at all. It does a few id based element queries, and uses Prototype’s Position.cumulativeOffset<\/a> once. So I just converted the dollar sign based id query with DOM<\/acronym><\/a> standard getElementById, and replaced the cumulativeOffset method call. Then removed the bits that output a prototype.js header link.<\/p>\n

That’s it. No more bulky prototype.js dependency!<\/p>\n

You can grab the patch<\/a> from the WP Plugins trac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I was at it, I also added gzip support for the js, css and static share-this page, along with a new flag to turn gzip on and off.<\/p>\n

Here’s the gzip support patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’d rather skip all the patching, here is a prepatched share-this.php archive<\/a>. To use it, download the Share This plugin<\/a>, and overwrite share-this.php with the new one (patched against the latest from SVN<\/a> as of this post date).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"