AIMPages seems to be getting things right…

So from using open-source AJAX library DojoToolkit to creating and implementing the widget microformat, they seem to be doing some things right — of course my profile looks like arse, but the possibility for greatness persists.

This entry was written by Chris Messina and posted on Jul 7th at @ 6pm and filed under Asides, Microformats, Technology, Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

6 Comments

  1. daniel
    Posted Jul 8th at @ 5am | Permalink

    I like how it says

    “Religion
    Straight”

    “Baby, I’m so straight I made my own religion about my straightness. I go to the straight temple every Sunday.” etc.

  2. Kevin
    Posted Jul 8th at @ 8am | Permalink

    We’re working on the arse bits now… hopefully, profile will be free of unwanted arse (I mean, if you want some tasteful arse, you’re welcome to include it…) in the very near future (along with more microformat support and better documentation of ModuleT).

  3. Lloyd D Budd
    Posted Jul 8th at @ 12pm | Permalink

    Speaking plain would have done wonders for me understanding what this blog post was about — it took me way to much time and I thought I spoke geek.

    AOL’s AIM profile pages called AIMPages include the widget Microformat and use open-source tools to acheive this.

    I still have no idea what the widget Microformat is.

  4. Chris Messina
    Posted Jul 8th at @ 6pm | Permalink

    Sorry Lloyd — it was a sidebar entry, so I didn’t take too much time on it. Mostly was excited to see someone like AOL using Dojo.

    The widget Microformat basically describes the classnames to use in your XHTML when identifying … what else? … widgets on a webpage — which, in the case of AIMPages, is just about every “block” of functionality or content!

  5. Kevin
    Posted Jul 9th at @ 4am | Permalink

    You can see the profile here: http://developer.iamalpha.com/profile and see what all the fuss is about here: http://developer.iamalpha.com.

  6. Lloyd D Budd
    Posted Jul 11th at @ 4pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the follow up Chris. I still don’t understand widget Microformat, even after starring really hard at http://developer.iamalpha.com/profile/ and willing myself to understand. Does widget Microformats help me as a user of AIMPages? Or only developers?

    Kevin, in terms of fuss I find what WordPress.com has done with the sidebar is hawt. Is there opportunity for you to collaborate / use those modules?

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