Benjamin Golub’s blog

RSSmeme is now even more Web 2.0 with the addition of Javascript events.  When Brian Beck gave RSSmeme a makeover he also threw in the ability to shrink down the tag/shared user list by using jQuery.  This got me interested in jQuery and I found myself not completely hating it.  I have had bad experiences with Javascript before but jQuery makes it fun and easy.  RSSmeme can now:

• Hide a story by clicking the “hide” link next to the “share!” link.  This is basically fluff but I could imagine you could use it to hide stories as you read.  It then becomes a “show” link to show the story again.
• Load the next level up in details for an individual story without changing your global preview setting.  If you find a story interesting you can click the “read more” link in the “Explore” subsection next to the “similar stories” link.  This will ask RSSmeme for more details about the story.  For example: if you are currently set to preview “none” then it will load “some”.  Click it again and it will load “all” and hide the link (there isn’t any more to see!).

There are probably more important things I can work on but this was fun for my first excursion into jQuery and JSON.  Django and jQuery made it painless.