Great communication around Upstart

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 12:20 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> I  really like the upstart website. It's under ubuntu.com but it's
> very clearly about it's own project. It is very "crisp and clean". The
> only thing I would add is some sense of activity (we should make it
> possible to fetch that from LP easily and integrate it with a
> mostly-static site).
> 
The recent launch of the Google Gadgets gives me an idea...

Launchpad URLs that only return the pure XHTML of a portlet


Sites like upstart.ubuntu.com can then just have a piece of JS to fetch
that portlet code, and write it into the document; and use its own CSS
to style it.


So I could just do something like:

<script>
include_portlet ("/products/upstart", "latest_bugs")
</script>

That could expand to an AJAX fetch of
https://launchpad.net/products/upstart/@@portlet/latest_bugs (invented
URL) which would return just the "Latest 5 bugs in upstart" portlet
XHTML code.

And then it'd document.write that into the web page at that point.


Alternatively it could be just done with SSI and cached.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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