Planet Mg: foray into JavaScript land

marius@gedmin.as (Marius Gedminas) — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:15:04 +0200

I have tried a number of desktop feed aggregators, but I found that I liked reading planets in Firefox best. Recently, hearing all the buzz about DHTML applications taking over the world, I decided to try and learn some JavaScript, and also make my planet more useful.

The result: Planet Mg now lets you collapse stories you have read, and remembers collapsed stories in a cookie. You can also move around stories with the keyboard (press ? for a list of key bindings). There are also unit tests for the JavaScript code.

Not everything works in Internet Explorer, though. I don't really need MSIE compatibility on Planet Mg, as its intended audience is just one Firefox user (me), but it would be a good exercise. I will work on it, time permitting.

I would like to thank Jeff Waugh, Scott James Remnant and other Planet developers for Planet; Chris Dolan for the inspiring JavaScript on his planet; Edward Hieatt for JsUnit; Peter-Paul Koch for QuirksMode.

The power of web applications

marius@gedmin.as (Marius Gedminas) — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:08:34 +0200

I'm really impressed by this zoomable map of Switzerland. Interactively zoom from the whole country down to individual streets and buildings! And it is insanely fast! I want one for Lithuania.

And it is all done in client-side Javascript.

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Planet Mg: foray into JavaScript land

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