If You’re Reading This…
| Sunday, May 21st, 2006 | --jr |
It means that I (or one of the other folks here) didn't get around to writing anything for today. My apologies, we've got a list of cool things, but we're engineers and live for last minute stuff.
Still, if you're looking for something kinda cool, you may notice that the list of Yahoo! Blogs has grown. Well, it has. That's probably the most accurate list of various product blogs we serve. Dang, there's a lot of them.
To make things a bit easier, I've also added a downloadable bookmarks link. (Yes, I'll add an OPML file containing the various RSS feeds and various other buttons later, but if I had that much time, I would have written a better article.)
Also, if your interested in what else I've been wasting time doing playing with, I've put a copy of Rasmus' Javascript Map on the site at http://ycoolthing.com/map. It's 100% AJAX mappy goodness built using the Yahoo! AJAX map development kit. So all you folks that say Yahoo! only does Flash maps? Time to start microwaving that plate of crow. It even responds to mouse wheeling.
's all for now. Hopefully I, or someone else, will post up something cooler later.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:16 am
That AJAX map freakin rocks, so much faster and cleaner than the flash version, will this ever move into prime time ?
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:30 pm
As I understand it, no. There’s no plan to have an AJAX version of the map. There’s some good reasons for that (single code base, less cross-platform issues, etc.), as well as some not-so-good reasons.
Oddly, I’ve always seen the same speed out of flash and AJAX. I guess it’s probably just the platforms I’ve worked on.
July 11th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
[...] What really surprised me, though, was the preponderence of people who seemed to have no idea that we’ve been implementing at least some version of this concept for a good year or so. So, time for another post about Yahoo! Maps! Interesting features in bold so you don’t miss ‘em, and of course, here’s the Yahoo! Maps Beta link so you can follow along at home. [...]