Monday, July 24th, 2006
Popup Politicians AJAX Widget
Category: Showcase
The Sunlight Foundation has released an AJAX Widget called Popup Politicians.
This prototype consists of a callable remote API for getting info about politicians, and a tag-popup script which uses that API.
Usage
Add the following to your head element:
HTML:
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<script src="http://sunlightlabs.com/popuppoliticians/sunlightpopups.js" xml:space="preserve" type="text/javascript">
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</script>
Add links to your politicians like so:
HTML:
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<a href="http://sunlightlabs.com/tag/Sen.+Edward+M.+Kennedy" rel="tag">Sen. Edward M. Kennedy</a>
When the script runs, it finds all the tags that look like the above, and adds a popup. For more information, look at the source of this page and the sample pages.
From a look at the code, it seems that it is using the On-Demand Javascript pattern to create the popups. In any event, it's refreshing to see an application of AJAX that doesn't involve social bookmarking or comparison shopping.
4 rating from 51 votes
nice pop-up. but, what should i do if i have to put this popup for my own content and style the pop-up my way?.. the api should be more open and ready to be improved.
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i want to see how it make it.
if this pop-up do better.i will use it.
test
alert(document.cookie);
Sounds like any of the zillion numbered tooltip widgets in existance out there… :)
Nice though!
We’ll put one in for our Q3 release! :)