Monday, January 13, 2003

The interactive intermediary. The scriptable DOM (Document Object Model) was always an intoxicating idea. Mobile scripts that lived in Web pages -- and could inspect and modify their hosts -- seemed rich with possibility. But when I saw the gymnastics those poor scripts had to perform in order to detect and adapt to browser versions, I recoiled in horror. There was no way I was going to use, or recommend, such a fragmented technology. Recently, though, my LibraryLookup project has reacquainted me with the world of JavaScript and the DOM. I was pleasantly surprised to find that scripts I wrote in Mozilla, under Mac OS X, worked identically under MSIE 6 on Windows. This is great news! It means that we're now in a position to reap the benefits of a class of software I'll call "interactive service intermediaries." [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 12:26:26 PM     LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Keeps Going and Going and Going..... alf is off and running with more ideas for adaptations of Jon Udell's LibraryLookup bookmarklet. He proposed the following in an email message: "Set up an SFX server like this one: (http://demo.exlibrisgroup.com:9003/demo) so that we can use an SFX Lookup bookmarklet (http://www.pmbrowser.info/hublog/archives/000016.html) to find resources. (As an example, try it on an abstract page in HubMed: http://www.pmbrowser.info/pmdisplay.cgi?issn=07302312&;uids=12520538)   Sign up to WorldCat, so that we can find books by geographical location (see the link to the OCLC WorldCat service if you run the SFX Lookup bookmarklet on the abstract page above). WorldCat also provides the 'other formats for this book' service you asked for." Excellent! [The Shifted Librarian] 12:24:23 PM

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