Ah, my bad. I wasn't looking carefully at the code. Though it's the scrolling I'm reacting to, so it's still the same ... of course, others may feel different.
Are you aware, BTW, of Paul Duncan's del.icio.us lib for Ruby? I use it myself, it's pretty stable right now. Though I suppose if you've already done the RSS parsing you might need this anyway.
http://pablotron.org/software/rubilicious/
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On Feb 17, 2005, at 10:28 PM, James Britt wrote:
Francis Hwang wrote:
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Oh, one other thing: Personally, I think iframes look pretty awful, unless you can guarantee that they'll never scroll. Trying to do what you're doing, going without will take more work -- you'd probably end up parsing del.icio.us's info directly in Javascript, I think -- so maybe it's not really worth it to make it pretty.
There are no frames. This is CSS + XHTML + JavaScript.
The data comes from a MySQL instance on the ruby-doc server; I fetch RSS from del.icio.us every few hours or so. The page uses XmlHttpRequest to make calls back to the server
Having the data local gives far more flexibility. Plus it avoids burdening the del.icio.us site.
Thanks again for offering ruby-doc,
My pleasure!
James
Francis Hwang
Quoteing rampant@gmail.com, on Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:08:38AM +0900:
> Again, just my opinion, but going to ruby-lang.org and seeing a slew of
> perl & python ads down the side yesterday (mustve been triggered by
> association of ruby with "scripting language", today there is only one
> other scripting language, and three asian translation links,) was weird.
??
Where are the ads on ruby-lang? I don't see any!
Really? Maybe you have a blocker?
Right hand side of http://ruby-lang.org/en/\.
Sam
Francis Hwang wrote:
Ah, my bad. I wasn't looking carefully at the code. Though it's the scrolling I'm reacting to, so it's still the same ... of course, others may feel different.
Are you aware, BTW, of Paul Duncan's del.icio.us lib for Ruby? I use it myself, it's pretty stable right now. Though I suppose if you've already done the RSS parsing you might need this anyway.
Yes, though truthfully I think it entirely slipped my mind when writing my feed-fetcher.
Go figure.
I basically just use a cron job to call wget or something and write the data to disk, and then a small script using the built-in RSS libs to insert records into the DB reading from the local disk files.
The main code has no idea where the data originally came from. It just calls into a local Web service to get stuff. If del.icio.us suddenly goes away or stops people from snarfing RSS feeds the app wouldn't care.
James