This 47-minute podcast is a discussion with Alexander Kirk, creator of the recently released Blummy (which I mentioned last week) and also Bandnews.
A few things we discussed:
- The design behind Blummy. (Interestingly, I was incorrect to guess it uses XHR - basically, the Blummy is like a Greasemonkey script - it uses DOM manipulation to alter the page you’re on, building up the container of all the Blummlets, and interacts with other sites using standard HTTP requests.)
- Plans for Blummy, its use of Lazy Registration, security issues.
- Developing for cross-browser compatibility.
- Passing data from another domain with JSON.
- The design behind Bandnews. Most band websites don’t bother with RSS, so Bandnews creates its own RSS feed, which is what the browser script reads.
- Why some Ajax apps are slow and what can be done about it.
- Libraries mentioned: dojotoolkit, prototype.
3 responses so far ↓
1 AJAX // Oct 31, 2005 at 11:44 pm
Podcast Interview with Alexander Kirk (Blummy, Bandnews)
2 Niels // Nov 4, 2005 at 1:26 pm
Blummy is absolutely fantastic! How did you find out about it Michael?
3 mahemoff // Nov 6, 2005 at 4:59 am
Hi Niels,
Alexander and I had some email contact about a few things we’d discussed on our blogs, so I was fortunate to hear about it. And this podcast should tell you how I felt about it!
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