Comments on: Ajax-Alexa-Thumbnails: API to get site thumbnails

By: dt

dt — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:39:10 +0000

Please note that this is not a free service, even if the code is GPL. It costs $0.0002 / thumbnail returned / no charge if the thumbnail does not exist. http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=236156011

By: eyelidlessness

eyelidlessness — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:19:54 +0000

Nosredna:
On come on, ‘just’ before ‘any’ is obviously implied. Syntactic semantic pedantry generally does not improve language coherency as far as the reader, or even the writer, is concerned while parsing the language in question; such behavior provides little to no benefit, it merely adds unnecessary complexity by polluting language with unnecessary detail which could be discerned from context simply by recognizing the context, parsing it and applying what’s observed from context to the particular bit being parsed by the reader at that particular moment in time. ;)

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:10:28 +0000

>>Since this uses Alexa, it can’t give you a snapshot of any page out there.
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Really? None?
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How about, “Since this uses Alexa, it can’t give you a snapshot of every page out there.”
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or, “Note that not all pages have Alexa snapshots.”

By: eferraiuolo

eferraiuolo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:46:54 +0000

Sorry for such a verbose example, but you could code it down to something more like this:

var Thumbnail = YAHOO.EDF.Thumbnail;
Thumbnail.init({ source:”alexa_service.php” });
Thumbnail.getThumbnail(“http://www.google.com”, function(thumb){ //alert(thumb); });

By: V1

V1 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:20:23 +0000

I dont even see the point of the thumbnails so that looks like rediculouse code anyways.. And it indeeds looks like it could be a shitload shorter…

By: ajaxery

ajaxery — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:02:28 +0000

Anyone else think that’s a ridiculous amount of code?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:26:09 +0000

I really miss the good old days when tasks as simple as that could be coded as:

[img src="/cgi-bin/thumbnail.cgi?url=http%3A//ajaxian.com/&size=64x64"]