{"id":1397,"date":"2012-01-03T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2012-01-03T21:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:02:20","slug":"a-post-not-related-to-nest-thermostat-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1397","title":{"rendered":"A post not related to Nest thermostat hardware…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I typed in https:\/\/www.nest.com<\/a> this evening and instead of the nice looking Nest.com web site, I got this:<\/p>\n

\"SNAGHTML69c9dbf8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What?! I hadn\u2019t actually noticed that I\u2019d typed https at first, so I was a bit baffled for a moment. After closer investigation, Nest doesn\u2019t have HTTPS apparently for their marketing\/support web site setup on their Amazon CloudFront account (which is what cloudfront.net is).<\/p>\n

They really should fix that. \"Smile\"<\/p>\n

I was having some serious performance issues with their remote access web site earlier. It was barely usable. <\/p>\n

That inspired me to dig a little to see what JavaScript libraries they might be using, the chatter on the network, etc. Here\u2019s what I dug up.<\/p>\n

JavaScript libraries:<\/p>\n

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  1. Jquery<\/a> 1.7<\/li>\n
  2. Raphael<\/a> (for doing vector graphics using SVG or VML)<\/li>\n
  3. Jquery UI<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. eve.js<\/a> (a \u201cjavascript events library\u201d)<\/li>\n
  5. jquery.ui.spinner<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. iphone style checkboxes<\/a> (or maybe a variation on this\u2026it\u2019s very similar)<\/li>\n
  7. backbone.js<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. underscore.js<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. modernizer<\/a> (1.6)<\/li>\n
  10. jquery-animate-css-rotate<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. jquery double tap plugin<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. jquery form plugin<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. jquery right click plugin<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. jquery mouse wheel support<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    An interesting DIV and solution to a problem with web fonts (found on their main page):<\/p>\n

    <<\/span>div<\/span> id<\/span>="digits"<\/span>><\/span>\n  <!--  Some browsers suffer unfortunate lag the first time they<\/span>\n        draw text in fonts loaded over the network. We pre-render<\/span>\n        these digits to avoid this lag, and this gets removed at<\/span>\n        the same time the loading message is removed. --><\/span>\n  1234567890\n<\/<\/span>div<\/span>><\/span><\/pre>\n
    And a method for activating DEBUG mode:<\/p>\n
    N.DEBUG = ('False'<\/span> == 'True'<\/span>) || (document.location.search.indexOf('debug'<\/span>) > -1) || (C.USERNAME.indexOf('@nestlabs.'<\/span>) > -1);<\/pre>\n