Friday, March 16th, 2007
Web-O-Random: Random Website Viewer
Category: JSON, Prototype
, Rails
, Showcase
.
It must be Friday. Web-O-Random is a new website I created to spend hours exploring random websites the Ajax way ;). A list of URLs is fetched from the server, placed into an animated carousel/slider component, and you can then navigate through the carousel to preview the websites.
Technologies:
- Server is Rails-based, accessing URLs from the Open Directory Project (as Active Records). Uses the Prototype Carousel component by Sebastien Gruhier, in turn based on Yahoo!’s carousel Scriptaculous is used for some effects.
- URLs are fetched via JSON calls.
- As with WebWait, site is loaded into an IFrame with event handler to determine when it’s been loaded (in Firefox).
More info in this blog post and the FAQ.
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2.9 rating from 21 votes
don’t host a pic of imageshack and make it available on a popular blog…. silliness.
Way to host an image on ImageShack… ;)
Its like Stumbleupon, but web 2.0… and rubbish.