So, I just finished del.icio.usifying the blog. First up, I have FeedBurner burning in my new links every day with their Link Splicer service. Then, for those of you who actually visit this fair website, I have a little JavaScript magic to insert the 5 most recent links right below the latest post.
The list of links is made possible with del.icio.us’s JSON interface to my bookmarks. JSON is a convention for data literals that is used here to get around the cross-domain restrictions of
XMLHttpRequest. Instead, the template contains a script tag that points at a dynamically generated JavaScript file on the del.icio.us servers that, when loaded, populates the global Delicious variable with the data from my last n links. Since, in practice, browsers load external JavaScript sequentially, the data from del.icio.us will be in place by the time an inline script expects it and builds the definition list out of it.I have to credit the JSON example from del.icio.us for the very clever idea of loading favicons into the list. I adapted the rest of the code, using the DOM helpers from (the most excellent) MochiKit. I was a bit disappointed that MochiKit doesn’t include a fold alongside their map, hence the hack to return a
span to get a space between the tags.
