bishless / handedness

jQuery plugin for tailoring documentation to right-handed or left-handed readers

handedness.js

Wouldn't it be nice if documentation were written for both right AND left handers?

Rough

Ideally, no extra markup would be required. A user of this plugin would simply chain .handedness() onto the containing element of their choice. i.e.

$('.content').handedness();

1. write default mouse button orientation to cookie or localStorage (righthanded).
2. when ready, search for instances of ' click ' or 'left-click' and/or other strings that make sense. (note: ... this is harder than I expected.)
3. wrap those matches with '' and ''.
4. then search for instances of 'right-click' (+others).
5. wrap those matches with '' and ''.
6. then, add two buttons near top of document
   1. button1 = Lefty
   2. button2 = Righty
7. if reader clicks Righty, that orientation is already set, do nothing.
8. if reader clicks Lefty, change the internal text of all instances of span.mb-primary to 'right-click'. Also change the internal text of all instances of span.mb-secondary to 'left-click'.

• possibly, add svg/iconfont via css :before to display a small icon next to each span?