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By: Even Simpler Pluralization with jQuery — Gary's Code

Even Simpler Pluralization with jQuery — Gary's Code — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:37:00 +0000

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By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:38:00 +0000

Hi Davide,

I’m getting some odd 404’s to my site from links in the post and comment of this page.

I think it’s the Google Analytics plugin (or another) which, when adding the rel=”nofollow” is using the wrong (single) quotes – check the source of this page and you’ll see. The browser (Firefox at least) interprets the invalid code correctly, but the Analytics doesn’t giving me 404s recorded like http://garyjones.co.uk/‘%20rel=’external%20nofollow . Any chance you could fix these up?

Thanks (and feel free to delete this comment – I couldn’t find a contact form for you!)

Gary.

By: Davide

Davide — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:18:00 +0000

Fixed that

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:14:00 +0000

Hat tip appreciated, thanks The “Gary’s tip” link in the update is almost certainly pointing to the wrong URL.

By: Davide

Davide — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:39:00 +0000

Good tip, I updated the post to acknowledge it. As far as the blur() suggestion goes, i had also used it at first, but I guess I prefer more responsiveness, so I went with keyup().

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:18:00 +0000

Hi Davide,

While your version works and everything, I can’t help but feel it’s a bit clunky for such a simple task. I’ve written up my thoughts at http://garyjones.co.uk/blog/pluralization/ . Regards, Gary.

By: Davide

Davide — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:36:00 +0000

@lovedeity
You're right there. Actually I meant to put a footnote about those languages with the dual number and so on, but I forgot in the process. Good point, and thanks for sharing the resource.

@Jose The noConflict() method comes in really handy especially when you're dealing with other people's frameworks, that is, you never know what might be in it. In my case i was forced to use it after realising that Prototype had already taken possessiojn of $.

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:56:00 +0000

Didn’t remember you can use noClonflict() to change the selector to what you want.. maybe i try to get used to taht from now on

By: Lovedeity

Lovedeity — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:17:00 +0000

For English, that’s an appropriate mechanism. Once you go beyond that, it gets a lot more difficult. For example, French has a zero value with a singular designation (zero day). Russian has three forms for pluralization based on some complicated rules.

…just something to consider if you ever decide to internationalize.

I found this to be an excellent resource for pluralization:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Localization_and_Plurals