My bro asked me to help redesigned his photoblog (see original), I kindda have a concept of mimicking a small application on a mobile device. The catch however, still have it accessible by browser. I have heard much about jQuery, so I started exploring. After patching some codes left and right, I kindda have a proof-of-concept working. You can see it here.
There are a few problems, first and foremost, it’s almost impossible to use it on a slow(er) connection. That couple with the fact that this is a photoblog, it made matter worse. There are definitely a few items that I can improve on, especially on caching of images. As of this point, wanting to throw together a working proof, I took the decision not to cache the actual images, just the images URI.
Second, the info are taken from the RSS feed instead of an actual program call to the DB or API to a CMS (like WordPress). This is because the originals are hosted on blogspot.com. That will definitely take some time.
Third, I wanted the splash screen to be of the first entry, but I realised too late during the building phase. Maybe proof #2 will have this done.
Fourth, the codes are definitely very messy and not optimised. There ain’t all the AJAX-y preloading buffer to actually tell the user that the item is indeed loading. Proof #2, hope I can get there.
At this moment, this will have to do. Comments welcome!