Software Voices

Do a quick Google search on standardCreateElement() and you will get a large number of results that all match a piece of Javascript code in someone's bookmarklet (aka favelet). You'll never get a page that tells you what the function does or why it is necessary. This drove me crazy for quite some time, but I finally figured out what was going on.

It is an eBay specific hack. Here is the code eBay uses to try to stop bookmarklets and other active content from working:

For those readers that may be somewhat new to Javascript, what this function does is redefine a few of the standard methods on the document object so that they call new eBay defined methods and rename the old methods standardOLDNAME. Sneaky.