langreiter.com plain, simple: comment-2002-05-08-1

LANGREITER.COM plain, simple

START

INDEX

comment-2002-05-08-1

CREATED BY alex_s • LAST EDITED BY alex_s 8263 days AGO

SweHeheet, I was eyeing this application, but I did not realize that the interfaces were there to allow it to be done (correction, I didn't even consider parsing the html, even more impressive). Nice. Excellent.

Another one that I've been considering recently is a graph of the interrelations between Daypop top40 links, and the bloggers that linked to them. There are RSS feeds for both the top40, AND any query that you would like to do (namely the link-to queries for the referrers.

Back to Amazon Vista, I am sure that one of the ideas which you say could be implemented is the association of pictures with the links, in popups, or better yet right above the captions. (The edges would eminate from the center of the picture) I guess that one could zoom out on the pictures a bit to allow a lot of them to be displayed next to each other. For popup hints, you can see the simple implementation in my version of the google browser, which will be released soon.

Another suggestion it to increase the speed of the application is to cache the results the way that Martin did with the Google Browser php. (Later experimentation shows that you might do this already) This would allow you to expand to a radius of 2 instead of 1, which is something that is really necessary in order to make the applet user friendly. Otherwise the process of expanding each node by hand is too tedious.

What else... Great job! The only problem is that I was thinking that this was one of the applications which could have had actual sponsorship. With some cash flow we could pump these babies out full speed. Then again, I guess that given the oppertunity, the fun factor of producing an application like this is just to great to wait for the funding. It will however be necessary for longer term progects, untill then it's "As time permits".

Anyway, Thanks, and congradulations,

--Alex