Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null
I have done a little bit of evolving and testing herre on the site recently, most of which is completly invisible and pointless to visitors. Yet it's there.
The one noticeable thing will be easy to spot for those concerned: I googled up and put in place one of those tricks for getting Internet Explorer to deal with transparency in png images. The image on top of the left menu still slips through the net, probably because it's a background image linked in the style sheet, but it's a start anyway.
Moving on to the invisible parts I've started to Buzzword-enable the site a bit.
Yep, AJAX.
All together now
boys and girls.
So now I can log in and click on any text or headline and edit it right in the page. Fun for all in the family. I also threw in a box (complete with fancy javascript-animated resizing) where I can search for images and have the results show up right away. Before I just loaded the whole list on the left side of the edit page, and it was getting pretty long. So good things all round, even if you can't see it. Who knows, maybe something visible is next?
It occured to me that judicious use of ajax to fetch things might/should actually be friendlier to servers than doing it the old fashioned way. After all, the usual thing you do is get new content for a part of a page instead of reloading the whole thing. Hence you save a whole bunch of data transfer and any additional processing involved in outputing a full page. No idea why it never struck me before.
It's not like I haven't
been doing things
the ajax way
on and off
for the better part of a year
...