Grazr Blog

The widget has learned some new, relatively powerful, tricks over the past couple weeks. We not only added iPhone support, but we’ve also added a framework for anchors and expansion control that enables some neat applications. We’ve been asked for anchor-type functionality by more than a few people. These new arguments allow you to […]

It took a little longer than I’d hoped, but Grazr widget code now runs really smoothly on the iPhone! Part of the delay was trying to figure out how to integrate the new widget behaviors with the site in a way that made sense.
When you go to the grazr iPhone site, you will see […]

I read most “JavaScript coding technique” articles with moderate interest as I’m always looking for new ideas and code patterns. I was really impressed, however, with this article by Dustin Diaz, Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today, linked off of Ajaxian. There’s some great stuff in there, including some really fundamental, forehead-smacking, […]

One of the things I’m quite proud of is the international support in our feed processing architecture and widget. Early on, I spent a maddening week getting unicode display working, and while my sanity took a minor hit, the international character support has meant we’ve gotten lots of non-english feeds and international traffic including feeds […]

Marjolein pointed me to a neat little bookmarlet that John Forsythe whipped together to preview and subscribe to RSS feeds in a page. He uses grazr as the preview mechanism and a pallet of subscription buttons when you’ve decided your sold on one. Cool. Thanks John!

I’ve spoken with John Resig a few times, both at Bar Camp Boston, and at one of the Boston Geek Dinners put on by Adam, Bela and Pito. John is a smart guy with some impressive javascript ninja skills and one of his projects is jQuery. jQuery is a really cool library for javascript that […]

If you haven’t seen it already, definitely check out Tom’s Grazr Digg->OPML viewer widget!. I just checked it and it’s currently on the front page of Digg, cool.

Thanks to Mike Sansone, I’ve found another bug in the server code (thanks Mike!). “Dos-like” linefeeds were causing Grazr to stall so I’ve put in a fix that seems to solve the problem.
In addition to the bug fix, there are a few new media handling behaviors. The handling of media enclosures in feeds has been […]

So I finally worked out some of the issues with the new loader and tested my new implementation. There were some pretty strange interactions at work with my release candidate (especially across browsers) that required a re-write. It took some time to work around the evils of document.write() but I found a solution that I […]

So I know the blog has been a little quiet recently. Long weekend in NYC (where I knew it was a *bad* idea to try and do work), prepping for OPML camp (which I’m still way behind and it’s this weekend), working on the ‘meta’ grazr issues (now that it’s a company) and one particular […]