I’ve been working on the AJAX for comments here - try it out by clicking on the Show Comments links on the posts with comments. It uses moo(.pack).fx, moo.ajax and prototype.lite - all stunningly good bits of JavaScript, and extremely small to boot.

One of the issues that I have with AJAX is that a lot of websites out there don’t offer any kind of indication as to whether your query is being processed. Usually this is done with the aid of a nice twirly image. If, like me, you suck at graphics design, then you really want to be checking this great website out. It allows you to automagically generate several different styles of progress indicators for your site without having to break out a GIF animator.

Archives are currently broken as I’m working on a better live-archive script. I found that by using three plugins, things were getting cluttered and, in some cases, over 100kb was being used per page. This was far too much, so I’ve decided to simply code my own stuff and cut down on page load-times.

Onwards and upwards, as they say.

4:45 pm | Posted in Computing, Web Development