Yahoo! UI Library: Panel and updated RawSugar

I’m having a little problem with the tendon in my right pinkie so the doctor advised to cut down on typing, meaning even less posting here. Boohoo. But I did want to mention the latest small technical addition I made to the site. Yahoo! has releaed a nice open source JavaScript UI Library and I used the Panel widget to rewrite the way the “Last 5” entries from my politics and movie review blogs are displayed. Just click the link to see it in action.

I’ve also implemented the new blog integration code from RawSugar on this blog and the movie reviews. This version is even slicker, with complete control of how the embedded tag box appears and–this is the new part–how the search results show up too. You can really make it all look like your own site, have the results appear in the same page as the tag box or on a dedicated page. Subsequent tag clicks, refining a search, refresh in place (that is, an Ajaxy no page reload) and when a user clicks the X close button, the same URL where the search started is redisplayed. Very nice work, and you can use it for your blog too, no charge.