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Screw the del.icio.us widget!
Yep, I said screw the widget from del.icio.us. Why? I mean, don't get me wrong, its a nice widget, here is an example:
Get the code to create the above badge from del.icio.us. They also offer a one line option to keep it nice and tidy. I do think that they need to add options to customize it to fit your site (similar to AdSense customization). Not everyone will want this large honking box on their site. And the one line option can get a bit long. I am sure as more feedback comes to the del.icio.us team, they will make improvements and offer more choices.
I say “screw it” because also as of today, you can now add a FeedFlare to your site with FeedBurner. This is the pretty way to go! Here is an example of what it looks like on both the CenterNetworks feed along with the site (along with the other FeedFlare I have selected:
Disclaimer: Naturally I was joking to a certain extent. Either widget or FeedFlare is a great way to get people more involved with your site. But this meta-widget style of using the FeedFlare from FeedBurner works for me because it keeps everything nice and tidy and organized and I only need to load one script code.
but I don’t see anything showing up in your widget! is there a delay? I tried it in a different browser too, so I know it isn’t cached on my side.
It appears the display of tags is delayed…they just showed up now. The biggest issue about the del.icio.us widget is can it differentiate between multiple instances on a single page?
only thing i can think of is that you saved the home page perhaps? not sure exactly.
but i appreciate you saving it in any case :)
“The biggest issue about the del.icio.us widget is can it differentiate between multiple instances on a single page?”
Using the one-liner include? No - it can only be used once per page because it uses the page location and title to automatically instantiate itself.
However, there is an as-yet-undocumented “manual mode” that we’re trying out. You can see it in the source code of the tagometer help page itself, as well as on my blog at http://decafbad.com/
“It appears the display of tags is delayed”
Sometimes, the tagometer may lag a little behind the rest of the page loading. This was a compromise we made in order to be a bit less obtrusive in terms of overall page loading time. So, our stuff loads in, then schedules the fetch of the JSON data feed, then gets out of the way of the rest of the page. Shortly after that, the JSON data returns, and the tagometers fill in.