January 19th, 2011
I recently was added to a “People like John Resig” Twitter list. I am nothing like John Resig. In particular I suck at Javascript.
However, given the annoyance of properly constructing a Flickr geo feed URL (admittedly linked to from the bottom of every places page, but whose counting), I decided to make a script for it while waiting for the kettle this morning.
I broke out the jQuery (thanks John!) and some code from Weather Near Me, and now there is photosnearme for finding the feed of photos for the neighborhood you’re in. YMMV.
ps. I keep forgetting and having to remind myself, Chrome’s ridiculous over aggressive caching makes it totally unsuitable for development purposes. That was probably the hardest part of the script.
pps. I don’t care that RSS is dead, I still like it.
see also: other waiting for the kettle scripts
February 7th, 2006
Phil finally convinced me that I wasn’t going to get the Firefox team to break the DOM standard in the name of elegant code, so I’ve gone ahead and added the two line Javascript fix for the comment refreshing effect. Let me know if you see more problems. (after you’ve done a force reload to make sure you have the latest typo.js)
November 6th, 2005
Comments should now properly refresh on Firefox 1.5rc2 (also fixed for any other browser that was deciding that $('commentList').lastChild means the smattering of whitespace between a closing </li> and the closing </ol>)
Also turned off the html filtering for comments which was acting as a “make ugly” flag. (BlueCloth seems to be finicky and difficult compared to Markdown implementations I’ve used before, and RedCloth claims to do Markdown, but didn’t when I tested it)
October 3rd, 2005
Does this technique open up the possibility of “smart” entries with rich Javascript controls in your aggregator? (and the concurrent security problems?)
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