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Multiple performance bottlenecks and security issues identified in client-side JavaScript including deprecated APIs, memory leaks, and injection vulnerabilities.

Performance Optimizations

  • Mobile menu handler: Reduced from 23 to 12 lines (48% reduction)

    • Eliminated 4 redundant class toggle operations
    • Fixed memory leak via proper event listener cleanup
    • Replaced verbose vendor-prefixed events with standard animationend
  • API calls: Replaced deprecated XMLHttpRequest with fetch API

    // Before: XMLHttpRequest with manual parsing
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
      if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
        var res = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
        // ...
      }
    };
    
    // After: Modern fetch with promise chaining
    fetch("https://v1.hitokoto.cn")
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(res => { /* ... */ })
      .catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
  • bing.js: Optimized Buffer handling using Buffer.concat() instead of string concatenation

  • NodeList iteration: Traditional for loop for better performance over forEach

Security Fixes

  • XSS protection: DOM API (createElement, createTextNode) instead of innerHTML concatenation
  • CSS injection prevention:
    • Strict URL pattern validation via BING_IMAGE_URL_PATTERN constant
    • CSS escaping for quotes/backslashes in background URLs
  • Type safety: Strict equality (===), parseInt with radix 10, comprehensive null checks

Code Quality

  • Extracted magic values to named constants
  • Fixed visibility detection from unreliable style.display to classList.contains()
  • Fixed array bounds logic with dynamic length validation
  • Proper function scoping to avoid global pollution

Results

  • CodeQL: 0 vulnerabilities
  • 100% backward compatible
  • All existing functionality preserved

Warning

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I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

  • www.bing.com
    • Triggering command: node assets/js/bing.js (dns block)

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Identify and suggest improvements to slow or inefficient code


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@dmego dmego marked this pull request as ready for review November 3, 2025 01:28
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Identify and suggest improvements to slow or inefficient code Optimize JavaScript performance and eliminate security vulnerabilities Nov 3, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from dmego November 3, 2025 01:37
@dmego dmego merged commit 235733a into gh-pages Nov 3, 2025
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