Ever work in an environment where developers use
javascript:alert("oh hai!"); to debug their code? The lack of using
console.log now results in nasty javascript alerts all over the
place in production code. It is a less than plesant user experience. The real
way to solve this problem is to scrub the source code of all javascript alerts.
Anyhow I wrote some javascript to surpress window.top.alert.
This script block should be thrown somewhere in the head, and
slingshot.load() in the onload/onready event. For purposes of my
example I just threw the slingshot.load() right inline.
<script type="text/javascript">
var slingshot = {
load:function(){
window.top.oldAlert = window.top.alert;
window.top.alert = function(){ return; };
},
trace:function(message){
if(slingshot.debug)
{
window.top.oldAlert(message);
}
},
debug:false
};
slingshot.load();
</script>
In order to actually show the alerts just set slingshot.debug
to true.
<script type="text/javascript">
slingshot.debug = true;
slingshot.trace("hello world!");
</script>
Enjoy.
