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4th April 2008 - Link Blog

Implementing a syntax-higlighting JavaScript editor in JavaScript. Appropriately subtitled “a brutal odyssey to the dark side of the DOM tree”. Some seriously clever trickery going on here.

Posted 4th April 2008 at 8:27 am

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