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JQuery IFrame Plugin

September 15th, 2009 · 14 Comments · SoftwareDev

This article by Nick Zakas, covering some technical issues in iframe loading, triggered me to surface a JQuery IFrame plugin I made a little while ago, which supports loading IFrames. (I did tweet it at the time, though I’ve since changed the location.)

JQuery IFrame plugin

The plugin basically tells you, the programmer of the parent [...]

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Making a Bookmarklet: A Challenge on All Fronts

July 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · SoftwareDev

Scrumptious, a social bookmarking/comments app I began building recently, has a bookmarklet.

The bookmarklet is added from the demo homepage.

It’s not the first time I’ve made a bookmarklet for a website, the first time being WebWait.

I found the Scrumptious edition more challenging though, for several reasons. This brief article outlines the challenges. Some I’ve solved to [...]

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Scrumptious Update: Open ID Support, UI Enhancements

June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · SoftwareDev

I’ve released a new version of Scrumptious. Main change is it now supports Open ID. You can click a “login” link to comment by Open ID. It’s optional by default, though a Scrumptious site operator could easily make it mandatory for read, write, or both by just changing a couple of words in the “policy” [...]

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When Resource IDs are URLs

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · SoftwareDev

Being a web app about websites and other resources, Scrumptious has a resource which is basically a URL, called “Pages”. A Scrumptious resource modelling google.com/about looks like:

http://scrumptious.tv/comments/bags/ pages/tiddlers/http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2Fabout

See? The resource ID is http://google.com/about, encoded. (encodeURIComponent(“http://google.com/about”)

This was working fine on my dev machine, running “twanager server comments.boz 8080″ (comments.boz being an alias for my local machine). [...]

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Scrumptious: Conversations About Websites (and other resources)

June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev

Scrumptious is a web framework I’ve begun working on at Osmosoft. It’s a web app and web service for sharing bookmarks and comments about websites, and pretty much anything else with a unique URL. Things it is related to: Delicious (bookmarking), Digg (threaded comments), JS-Kit and Disqus (embedded comments with common identity across multiple sites).

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