Yeah, I'm sorry to say this, but this plugin is really quite badly broken.

I don't mean to be rude, but it would be considerably more responsible to the jquery community for you to mention here on your page that this plugin doesn't work and shouldn't be used.

My reasoning: problems with encoding/decoding are incredibly hard to narrow down. Who's the culprit? For instance, is it the Javascript? Is it AJAX? Is it the server-side language? Is it some kind of character-set encoding mismatch between the server, the database and/or the HTML? The list goes on. It took me several painstaking hours to discover that this plugin was the culprit.

I think I should mention that this is the first third-party jquery plugin I've tried that is critically broken.

Out of respect for the jquery community you should really pull the plug on this plugin – not only is it redundant, it is misleading, un-educational and potentially damaging depending on your usage.

I've tried really hard here to be constructive without being rude – I hope I have been! Been constructive that is

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http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

and decode this string

%3Cdiv%20style%3D%22width%3A%20100%25%3B%22%3E%3C%2Fdiv%3E

I get

<div style=”width: 100%;”></div>

But if I decode that same string using your decoder, i get this:

<div style=”width: 100></div>

Something seems messed up with the % or something…sorry, but I don't have the time to fix it. I've reverted to using the plain old javascript functions encodeURIComponent decodeURIComponent.

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I figure you normally do this but always like to include that note because of the random people who don't know/do that and will find and use your tutorial and might benefit from knowing they most likely don't want to DELETE a person type record.

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The problems I see though are with the few apps that go beyond, mainly games. While things are getting faster and faster, there is still a lot more power in code that directly accesses the hardware and doesn’t have to go through extra layers. It may eventually get there but isn’t yet.

Also with things like Appcelerator’s Titanium we can even develop both a web version and a real app version at the same time because you can use the same tech to make both.

Overall lots of great options to do what he’s already talking about and makes things way easier when not having to use a ton of different languages.
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Why would you use this plugin when javascript has a encodeURI/decodeURI and encodeURIComponent/decodeURIComponent?

I would just like to know the motive, because I’m investigating the possibilities for urlencode.

Thanks

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Hi, I think URLDecode should handle “+” char as well used to encode space char if %20 isn’t used.
I’ve patched URLDecode function:

function dummy_url_decode(url) {
    // fixed -- + char decodes to space char
    var o = url;
    var binVal, t, b;
    var r = /(%[^%]{2}|\+)/;
    while ((m = r.exec(o)) != null && m.length > 1 && m[1] != '') {
        if (m[1] == '+') {
            t = ' ';
        } else {
            b = parseInt(m[1].substr(1), 16);
            t = String.fromCharCode(b);
        }
        o = o.replace(m[1], t);
    }
    return o;
}

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