mini.js documentation

• IE: True in IE, false elsewhere. Try to use only to work around bugs
• FF: A number, the major version in FireFox, false otherwise. (!FF && !IE) mostly means webkit since opera cheats

• el(id): gets an element by id. if passed an element, it returns the element. old entries are cached, repeat calls are almost instantaneous.
• els(id): gets an element's style object by the element's id
• tags(elm, id): get tags into array by tag name elm. if id is passed, only elements of tag elm under element id are returned.
• dom: several methods to simplify working with the dom:
  • dom.div(nodeName, content) - quickly creates a new element with the value/innerHTML of content
  • dom.attribs(elm, attribOb) - binds an object of attribs and properties to an element
  • dom.create(nodeName, content, attribs) - a new element filled with content and bound to attribs object
  • dom.prependChild(newChild, parentElement) - makes newChild the first sub-tag inside parentElement
  • dom.text(elm) - returns the text content of an element. handles inputs and regular tags.
  • dom.kill(elm) - removes an element from the document
  • dom.encodeHTML(str) - allows source code to be displayed without parsing it as tags
  • dom.getParent(elm, tagName) - finds the first tagName tag wrapping the element
  • dom.replace(newNode, oldNode) - replaces one element with another

• .map(fn,this): applies a function to each index of an array
• .filter(fn,this): filters array elements according to truthfulness of function's return
• .indexOf(var2match, numStartSlot): gives arrays an indexOf feature
• .pluck(arrayKeys): build a new array of objects from another array of objects based upon the passed array of key names
• .random(): a random element of an array
• .unique(): returns a duplicate-free array
• .valids(): array stripped of undefined elements
• ._(strKey): a property of each element
• .bind: adds propert(y/ies) /methods to each element
• .iif(strExpression): a conditional to filter an array of objects ex: tags("*").iif(".className=='active' ")

• ping(url): send a GET request to any URL on any domain
• store(key, val): client-side persistence. if val is passed then sets the data, else returns key's data (aka foxStore)
• getCookie(strName): loads the cookie named in the argument and returns it as a string
• setCookie(strName, strValue): saves a cookie named by the 1st argument with the data in the 2nd arg.
• IO(url, data) : file saving and loading. loads synchronous, saves asynch
• jsGet(url): simple remote scripting tag adder (aka inject)
• tmpl8(objData, strTemplate): a substitution template using json: **key**- tmpl8( [{a:1},{a:4}] , "#: **a**\t") ="#: 1 #: 4 "
• Object.toSource(): json serializer for all browsers

• obKeys(obj): array of object's key names
• obVals(obj): array of object's values
• obValsl(obj): returns an array of objects from objects with native .length properties (like nodeLists and collections)
• obMap(obj): 2 column array from objects key and values : {k:v, k2:v2} => [ [k,v], [k2,v2] ]

• aCSS(strCssCode): adds a new stylesheet from a string containing css text (like the content of a style tag)
• defer(code): Slightly delays the function or string code to free the CPU to handle the stack. also allows a small window for user input to be processed.
• F$(str): turns a string into a function with three named args: a,b, and c.