Mint is a new product recently released to track the statistics on your website. It has gotten much attention from several areas, and I thought it would be worth it to check it out.

I have created a method that assists in creating your HTML elements in Javascript. textToNode takes a string of text and converts it into a DOM element which you may then use for insertion. It’s much easier to use than creating each node seperately, adding attributes to it, then appending it to the parent. It also works for table elements (tr, td, etc.) and the option element in a drop-down box.

It’s alive!! I have created a very cool, very simple, function to create new javascript objects that are (not just act upon) HTML DOM elements. Let me explain. Say I have a cool new tree menu I’m creating (true story), and I want others to be able to just start creating the menu items and adding them in via javascript if they need to. The ideal way would be to just say myItem = new MenuItem('Cool Item'); and have it return to me the actual menu item (the TR tag or LI tag) which can be inserted into the menu.