... and learned a lot about how non-technical users interact with services like this. Two things:
You ought to consider case-hardening it and offering it as a single-line JS include ... much of your target audience won't want to deal with putting a DIV in the body and some SCRIPT tags elsewhere.
Also: have you thought about using the Pipes Fetch Feed module to automatically discover a user's feeds? Many will stumble over the difference between their profile page:
Congratulations; it's great to see services like this popping up!
http-kentbrewster.com-
· 1 year ago
Whoops, messed up the link to Case-Hardened JavaScript. Please edit my original reply and delete this one?
Carlo Zottmann
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the kind words and suggestions, Kent! I appreciate it. :)
Yeah, an one-line JS include -- I've started working on it and made great progress. The one big stumbling block I've found is Safari ignoring the added CSS link tag. Awesomes. :/ But yes, it's definitely on my list. I've just tried to go with the "release early, release often" idea.
Same thing w/ feed discovery. Pipes is a slight PITA when it comes to reliably getting feed metadata like feed title, feed generator etc. So I do this on escaloop, not with Pipes. So I'll probably end up adding it "here" instead of "there". Soon... :)
bq. Whoops, messed up the link to Case-Hardened JavaScript. Please edit my original reply and delete this one?
What link?
Jem
· 1 year ago
Hmmm....how to contact you about BetterSearch...?? Thanks.
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http://kentbrewster.com/badger/
... and learned a lot about how non-technical users interact with services like this. Two things:
You ought to consider case-hardening it and offering it as a single-line JS include ... much of your target audience won't want to deal with putting a DIV in the body and some SCRIPT tags elsewhere.
Also: have you thought about using the Pipes Fetch Feed module to automatically discover a user's feeds? Many will stumble over the difference between their profile page:
http://twitter.com/kentbrew
... and the feed from their profile page:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/26227...
Congratulations; it's great to see services like this popping up!
Yeah, an one-line JS include -- I've started working on it and made great progress. The one big stumbling block I've found is Safari ignoring the added CSS link tag. Awesomes. :/ But yes, it's definitely on my list. I've just tried to go with the "release early, release often" idea.
Same thing w/ feed discovery. Pipes is a slight PITA when it comes to reliably getting feed metadata like feed title, feed generator etc. So I do this on escaloop, not with Pipes. So I'll probably end up adding it "here" instead of "there". Soon... :)
bq. Whoops, messed up the link to Case-Hardened JavaScript. Please edit my original reply and delete this one?
What link?