History (so far) of a
loosely connected collaboration…
Steal This Widget
http://drdreff.blogspot.com/2003_09_14_drdreff_archive.html#106393275917277424
Sarah Allen's Weblog has a new version of her/my nav
toy. Thanks to the wonder of hosting Marc's Voice has the new widget also. As
you can see it is getting some nice attention with some new art and other goodeness. Sarah provides some detail about the updates. It
even now has a name.
As an homage
to Abby Someone.
Update to my
http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/09/18.html#a1726
I love updates. Especially when they appear automaically and I don't have to do anything. Sarah Allen just gave me such an update. Now all of you can check out the source code
used to create my
steal this widget
http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/archives/000078.html
...you can now check
out the code for the link browser by simply clicking on "view source"
in the top-right
I get blogged by JD
http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/09/18.html#a1724
Most of the
Macromedia people would prefer it if I never existed. So it's rare day in the blogosphere
when one of them blogs me. But here it is. I got blogged
by John Dowdell.
Thanks JD! I guess they're noticing what
But he's right about
the blogroll info NOT being able to be spidered and included in any blogosphere
rankings, etc. Now gee, what's wrong
with THAT picture?
It seems like a few
people like it.....
http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/09/17.html#a1716
Thank you to
Cool
http://paolo.evectors.it/2003/09/17.html#a1867
Quite cool.
I don't get excited
about Flash often.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0110130/2003/09/17.html
Most of the time web
developers use it to create things that should be done in HTML or just to
create a useless piece of animation. But
But
Wednesday, September
17,
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/09/17.html#a4658
Marc Canter is
showing off his new Lazslo-produced blogroll.
The future..
http://drdreff.blogspot.com/2003_09_14_drdreff_archive.html#106375634834751590
Marc's Voice now has
a version of the nav toy. Marc's is based off Sara's
code which has the OPML viewer capabilities spoken of here.
One of these days I
will finish the other capabilities in my version.
- parameterized art
assets (white or black)
- Tinting instead of
transparency
- point
to multiple blogrolls
- variable
size
- procedural
construction of tabs based on input parameters
- the
return of sibling control.
- fonts?
Maybe, I use verabd now.
My
http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/09/16.html
Sitting in the left
hand column of my blog (otherwise known as a BlogRoll) - you will notice a dynamic, sexy user interface
object built with
http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/09/15.html#a1705
Sarah Allen has
posted what I believe to be the future.
It's a stand alone
XML and apple pie
http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/archives/000075.html
After I wrote the
last entry on my OPML viewer, it stuck me that most humans (even most techies)
have never heard of OPML. (Thanks to Marc Canter for telling me about it.) I'm
not even sure how ubiquitous this format is, but it applied well to the task at
hand. As with most XML formats, it has its own website and I could read all
about it on opml.org
Nav Toy Redux
http://drdreff.blogspot.com/2003_09_07_drdreff_archive.html#106313611341290309
So there is a new toy
app in the gutter now. Thanks to the ease of
http://drdreff.blogspot.com/2003_09_07_drdreff_archive.html#106312495457699577
Sarah Allen hast pilfered my code! Thank you Sarah, I'll integrate some
of your ideas into my toy. Her version uses an XML file that sits next to the
LZX to create the linkage. Thus decoupling the app and data.
This has the advantage of being a smaller code footprint (60 lines of code) but
it has a couple of disadvantages also. I fully parameterize everything on a quey string to fill in the blanks,
you are limited to the number of slots I give you.
http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/archives/000074.html
Inspired by
http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/archives/000072.html
At Mark's Hole in the
Web, you can check out a neat little toy he made for his blog
gutter. It shows a hierarchical list of links in a small space, using animation
and interactivity. I really like the colorization -- you can see it with two
different background colors in the gutter and the content of the blog.
Nav Toy now BlogWorthy
http://drdreff.blogspot.com/2003_09_07_drdreff_archive.html#106305830618139273
So I finally stuck my
little fun links toy into my blog. This is one of the
sillier things I have written while tinkering with LZX. The app is hiding over
at my
http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/08/08.html#a1600
[snippet
from
http://www.osteele.com/archives/2003/08/laszlo_blogging_widget.html
Last month I did a code
sprint on a blogging aggregator written in LZX. You
can see the results at my
Rethinking MVC
http://www.osteele.com/archives/2003/08/rethinking_mvc.html
In the
Model-View-Controller architecture, the Model is decoupled from information
about the user interface. In a Data-Driven Presentation, the data contains all
the information necessary to assemble the user-interface elements. These design
patterns appear at first to be exclusive mutually exclusive: either the data
contains presentation information, or it doesn't. This apparent conflict is because
of a confusion between the Model of MVC, and the Data
in DDP. The need for this kind of
architecture came up in a blogging widget I
prototyped recently.
My
http://www.osteele.com/archives/2003/08/my_laszlo_goes_live.html
Check out My
Integration,
aggregation and customization
http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/07/27.html
Sarah Allen (formerly
of Macromedia) is now working at
February 28, 2003,
2003
the
first public notice of the nav
toy