River of News + Asynchronous Javascript Request
Recently I had a conversation with Dave Winer over the AJAXing of the “River of News” aggregator. In an effort to share what I have done I am posting the code that I modified in the newsRiverWebsite.#template from the newsRiver.root Guest Database. The updated code includes the nessary Javascript to do Asynchronous Javascript Request, it includes 1 lame example of a test request and handling the return response.
To make this work someone will need to modify the riverNews code so that it can return HTML fragments. Example instead or returning <html><head></head><body><content></body></html> it would return just the <content> part, and the rest is done within Javascript.
You can do a lot of cool things with this little library. I however don’t have the time or know how to modify the necessary userTalk code to this extent. So if somone would like to pickup where I left off I would be will be willing to share the code and answer your question’s about how it works.
The code is licensed under the GPL.
February 7, 2006 at 8:11 am
[...] I was intrigued by the description of the way RoN readers works and some days ago I’ve started using the newsRiver tool for the OPML editor. I should say that the feeling is better than the tools I’ve used before (i’d also like a more dynamic interface for it, maybe with async calls to the server for page update…). I was reading very few blogs regularly and use them as starting points to find the relevant news, but using the newsRiver I’m able to keep track of many more feeds than i was used to. [...]