Pixelbox

Last night I spent about half an hour I should have spend a long time ago, installing a plug in to display my recent links from del.icio.us (social bookmarking).

It was fairly easy, I downloaded a script for displaying RSS feeds, changed the link and called if from inside an un-ordered list on my side bar. Job done.

However I have to say I am slightly un-impressed with it. Currently it seems to only update every now and again, obviously you wouldn’t want to delay my site loading whilst it fetched an RSS feed from another server. Especially not every time you refresh the page.

It seems that instead it downloads the XML to a temp folder and uses that. However its really annoying when I want to see up to the minute info on my links.

So I gathered that the solution to this problem is to overlay what I currently have with a client side script which gets the feed from the site directly after the initial page has loaded.

In effect this allows up to date information, and also has the cashed information to fall back on (Hijax-styli)… however I am yet to implement it ;)