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PyramiDOM: Spectrum DOM Analyzer

Andrea Giammarchi has created PyramiDOM a “Spectrum DOM Analyzer”. When I first saw it, and read “Spectrum” I thought I was looking at an old 48k video game, but in fact it is showing you info on the DOM:

The generated spectrum will contain every single nodeType 1 present in the document and will show via tooltip info about that node (nodeName, id if present, className if present). Moreover, it highlights somehow that node temporary changing the background (yellow one). The most wicked effect was in jQuery website itself, since it is dark, and since it is linear enough (you scroll and the spectrum is almost there where you scroll).

On the other hand, the most interesting spectrum was in Gmail, where you can spot a proper pyramid of nested divs. Each nodeName will have the same color, but for practical reasons each time this color will be different (random).

You can grab this PyramiDOM link to play.

For real – where’s the “I don’t care, go away” button?

The assignment operator in R is <- as in

e <- m*c^2.

It is also possible, though uncommon, to reverse the arrow and put the receiving variable on the right, as in

m*c^2 -> e.

It is sometimes possible to use = for assignment, though I don't understand when this is and is not allowed. Most people avoid the issue by always using the arrow.