Changes / New Capabilities
by mikepk on May 8, 2006
So here’s a list of some of the major changes to the new Grazr Alpha 9 code.
The new include mechanism, no longer requires the grazr web service to create new Grazr panels.
Some cosmetic differences, new ‘about’ bar, smoothed animation
Proportional Sizing (percent sizes)
- Grazr code ‘expands’ to fill it’s host container, whatever that may be, including dynamic containers.
Single line include
- works around the embedded wordpress problems
Multiple grazrs, load as many as you want
Experimental – “nice” loader function, self queues behind other javascript in the host page
Alternate display modes
- story mode – removes post nesting to create a single stream of all items
- media mode – if the post contains an Mp3 enclosure, tries to autoplay
Theme support turned ‘on’
- First set of pre-defined themes
- Use ‘transparent’ themes to put custom wallpapers behind grazr
Titlebar + toolbar
- “maximize” button to ‘popout’ a grazing window
- config button to dynamically change grazr panel
- Change fonts, font size, themes, and get code for the new grazr dynamically!
Now for the bad – stuff thats not working
Context memory (scroll position and clicked node high lighting) is not working in the new panel code. It’s something I’m working on, but the ‘inner plumbing’ of the panel is significantly different from the old version
Titles aren’t properly displaying for feeds due to a server tweak
Near Future
Post templates – allows rearranging of post constituent items as well as custom labels (for specific applications and internationalization).
History button – Show list of all previously viewed nodes
