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I’ve had the chance to troll Donald Trump. But I didn’t.

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The craziest thing that could possibly happen on my professional life as a Software Engineer happened on August 18th, 2016. That day I discovered that I could perform a massive Rick Roll attempt against the US presidential candidate Donald Trump.

 

The crazy story begins with an unexpected e-mail from a guy named Shu Uesugi – a San Francisco based Engineer currently working for EdSurge – asking for permission to mention my name and share to the world what he just discovered.

After reading his e-mail and his draft I was like:

The short story is that Donald Trump has a donate page which is using my open-source project jQuery Mask Plugin to guide his visitors on the tricky quest of filling up web forms – so far so good.

The shit hits the fan when the developer of his 2MM dollars website decides to include the minified version of jquery mask plugin file pointing directly to the demonstration page of my project (hosted in github.io). I have 100% control over this file and the developer simply injected the file on the page (instead of saving the file on his servers) and I could just replace or inject something nasty in it to make the most ambitious trolling attempt against the US presidential candidate.

Yet, in shock, I decided to share this with my personal friends on Facebook:

In only MY post I got 714 likes, 139 comments and an impressive 262 shares, hundreds of people randomly sending me friend requests, sending me messages on Twitter, Facebook and e-mails… giving me ideas and warning me about the window of opportunity that I got to do something about Trump. People really liked the possibilities of what Uesugi discovered . At the end of the post I asked for ideas of what each person would do if they were in my position – oh boy… that was fun!

All of the sudden I became some sort of super-man with a power that could change the world. People were like… DO IT! DO IT! Say something! Make a beautiful rain of penises with wings upon his website! And I was like… Wow… People really want to say something to this guy…

They even opened a hilarious pull request on their own, pure team work, in attempt to do something and hoping I’d merge it (sadly it was deleted).

The discovery was discussed everywhere:

After watching all this, receiving all those tweets, messages and emails showing nothing but pure hate love towards Trump. Of course, the bad news spreads fast and in a matter of hours the code on Trump’s website was fixed. People were in tears. e.g:

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Then I posted this on twitter:

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Yep. At the bottom of your heart you agree with me that this would be wrong. jQuery Mask Plugin is a serious project which took years of hard work and commitment to the community to build its reputation. I can’t just throw it all away for the public’s amusement. To make people laugh. To make a statement against someone – even if this someone is a US presidential candidate like Donald Trump.

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The true sad history behind this is that Donald Trump’s website cost 2MM dollars, they are using several open sourced projects like our jQuery Mask Plugin and they don’t even donated 1.00 freaking dollar in our donate page to support its development.

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Using jQuery Mask Plugin with Zepto.js

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Running jQuery Mask Plugin with Zepto.jsToday I’m going to exemplify a pretty easy way to put jQuery Mask Plugin to run with Zepto.js instead of jQuery.

What is Zepto.js

Basically, you can switch from jQuery to Zepto.js if it’s too heavy or if it’s too much for your current needs. If you need something more lightweight that allows you to keep your code compatible with your old jQuery’s code, Zepto.js is a match for you.

Zepto is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a largely jQuery-compatible API. If you use jQuery, you already know how to use Zepto. While 100% jQuery coverage is not a design goal, the APIs provided match their jQuery counterparts. The goal is to have a ~5-10k modular library that downloads and executes fast with a familiar and versatile API, so you can concentrate on getting stuff done.
– Zepto.js Official Web Site

How to

Recently, Igor Lima made a pretty cool contribution to jQuery Mask Plugin making a few tweaks on jQuery Mask Plugin’s code to make it run smoothly with Zepto.js, making things even easier for you.

Since version 0.9.0 all you have to do is:

1 – Load zepto.js between your head TAG (or where ever you want to put it if you know what you’re doing):

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://zeptojs.com/zepto.min.js"></script>

Load the Zepto.js data plugin right after Zepto.js:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.github.com/madrobby/zepto/master/src/data.js"></script>

Zepto’s basic implementation of data() only stores strings. To store arbitrary objects the optional “data” module from custom build of Zepto was included.

And then load jQuery Mask Plugin:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.github.com/igorescobar/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/master/dist/jquery.mask.min.js"></script>

All you need to do now is take a look into jQuery Mask Plugin Documentation to learn a little about jQuery Mask Plugin’s API and you’re ready to go!

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Masks With jQuery Mask Plugin

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Today is the oficial release of the version 0.4.3 of my jQuery Mask Plugin. Since I have never written about it before on this blog, I’ll teach you guys how to use it and some other cool features about it.

Downloading the code

 wget https://github.com/igorescobar/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/blob/master/jquery.mask.min.js

The only thing that you guys need to do is include the javascript file of the plugin between the head tag in your HTML document and it’s all set to use.

The syntax

The jQuery Mask Plugin syntax is pretty simple. First, you input your  selector, followed by the .mask and then as a parameters you have to put the mask that you want the plugin to apply on the form field.
Example

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.date').mask('00/00/0000');
});

In this example the mask 00/00/0000 will be applied in all the input fields that have the “.date” class. At jQuery Mask Plugin you don’t have pre-established masks, you choose the mask as you wish. On the website project you can see the jQuery Mask Plugin running with some others examples like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
$('.date').mask('11/11/1111');
  $('.time').mask('00:00:00');
  $('.date_time').mask('00/00/0000 00:00:00');
  $('.cep').mask('00000-000');
  $('.phone').mask('0000-0000');
  $('.phone_with_ddd').mask('(00) 0000-0000');
  $('.phone_us').mask('(000) 000-0000');
  $('.mixed').mask('AAA 000-S0S');
  $('.cpf').mask('000.000.000-00', {reverse: true});
  $('.money').mask('000.000.000.000.000,00', {reverse: true});
});

As you can see, it’s possible to define other data type on each digit of the mask. This mask for example:

$('.mixed').mask('AAA 000-S0S');

The user can type a sequence of three alpha numeric characters, followed by space, three numeric characters, a slash, one string character, other number character and finally one string character, cool isn’t it?

Again, you can define the mask as you wish and the data type of each digit of the mask as well.

Features

  • Lightweight (~2kb minified, ~1kb gziped).
  • Masks on any HTML element!
  • data-mask attribute support.
  • String/Numeric/Alpha/Mixed masks.
  • Reverse mask support for masks on numeric fields.
  • Sanitization.
  • Optional digits.
  • Digits by range.
  • Automatic maxlength.
  • Advanced mask initialization.
  • Callbacks.
  • On-the-fly mask change.
  • Mask removal.
  • Customization.
  • Compatibility with Zepto.js

More about jQuery Mask Plugin

  1. jQuery Mask Plugin on Github
  2. Demonstration
  3. jQuery Mask Plugin
  4. All versions of jQuery Mask Plugin

Any problems, please, let me know.

Help us!

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