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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Started conversation Feb 8, 2011
I would like to see a new skin which incorporated some Ajaxy goodness. Let's say you have 200 posts showing, and you want to see if there are any new ones. Refreshing the entire page is hard on the server and hard on you. Now imagine a little button automatically appearing saying "three new posts: click to show". And when you clicked, they'd be downloaded (just the new three, in JSON format, instead of the whole page, in HTML format) and added to the list of posts. Facebook does this sort of thing quite nicely, but it's actually become almost a standard practice across many sites to add new stuff into the current page without reloading the entire page.
I'd like to see a published API which would allow any web-developer to create their own skin for h2g2 and upload it. It would then be made available to a group of volunteers who test new features (and this is one group you'd have no trouble getting volunteers for), and, once they were happy with it, available to everyone.
TRiG.
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Z Posted Feb 9, 2011
What a great idea! I have no idea how on earth we would implement it, but it's a great idea.
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Feb 9, 2011
Well, look at all the themes available for Wordpress. And we know that the DNA software is skinnable. So something like this must be possible.
TRiG.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Feb 9, 2011
so this isn't a thread about the ch4 show, like the being human thread !!!?
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- 1: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Feb 8, 2011)
- 2: Z (Feb 9, 2011)
- 3: 8584330 (Feb 9, 2011)
- 4: Mrs Zen (Feb 9, 2011)
- 5: Icy North (Feb 9, 2011)
- 6: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Feb 9, 2011)
- 7: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Feb 9, 2011)
- 8: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 9, 2011)
- 9: Baron Grim (Feb 9, 2011)
- 10: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Feb 9, 2011)
- 11: Baron Grim (Feb 9, 2011)
- 12: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Feb 9, 2011)
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