Out of the Blue

Another new function is live here, thanks to the ongoing efforts of Frans. We now have the ability to add breaks to stories, so it will no longer be necessary to arbitrarily cut the length of longer posts, as we can now offer a link to read the rest of the story. A few of today's posts already make use of this, providing the chance to offer feedback on this if you are so inspired.

Speaking of feedback, I'll repeat a request for HTML advice from the forums yesterday. We want to make the default instructional text gray in the "post a message" text box for our forums, which we have not been able to work out. If anyone has any insight into how to make this happen, we'd appreciate your help.

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Re: Out of the Blue
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Re: Out of the Blue Nov 26, 2009, 06:47
Nov 26, 2009, 06:47
 
I'd much prefer the xmlhttprequest type ajax calls than a "read more..." link.
You just feed the call back to a page that returns the rest of the content from the database. (Or flatfile if you prefer it really doesn't matter how it's stored)

If you're already generating the SEO pages and dumping them when the item is updated they can still be linked from the main article and made available to other sites etc..., but for people viewing the site from just the main page I'd think it's much better to have all the data available without a whole page load.
(This would actually be better for the server also, but it will cut down on advertising impressions.)


Lastly just wanted to add that ajax although it's been abuzz for a while now is really just a javascript include file and some DIV tags for an innerHtml write, tied together with a simple dynamic page serverside that generates the extra information.

There's a great tutorial that covers the basics here.
http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp
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