News feed
4:45 AM
On Friday, I briefly tried out the JavaScript-based news feed from 365gay.com. I put it at the bottom of the preview box (the right-most column). It's an interesting enough feed and I'd like to use it although I'd most like to use the RSS feed from QueerDay.com.
I took the 365gay feed down, however, because it became clear to me when their server was down on Saturday morning that using the feed would require some significant tweaking of this site. When the news feed server is down, the browser waits around for a response before timing out. Nothing will appear until after the timeout.
As it happens, the preview box is presented to the browser as the second css element to be rendered, before most of the other common elements are presented. Putting in anything that requires response from a foreign server can cause real problems for you, dear browser.
So the news feed is gone for now. I might change each of the pages to allow an extra css element to be attached to the preview box late in the rendering cycle, but it's probably not worthwhile to do that for this particular feed.
I took the 365gay feed down, however, because it became clear to me when their server was down on Saturday morning that using the feed would require some significant tweaking of this site. When the news feed server is down, the browser waits around for a response before timing out. Nothing will appear until after the timeout.
As it happens, the preview box is presented to the browser as the second css element to be rendered, before most of the other common elements are presented. Putting in anything that requires response from a foreign server can cause real problems for you, dear browser.
So the news feed is gone for now. I might change each of the pages to allow an extra css element to be attached to the preview box late in the rendering cycle, but it's probably not worthwhile to do that for this particular feed.
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