Version 3 of the blog is now online, many things are probably broken...I will work through them.
The design is influenced by numerous other sites which I have a great deal of respect for, most notably Khoi Vinh's beautiful
Subtraction and Michael Heilemann's technologically amazing
Binary Bonzai.
Perhaps the biggest thing about this update is the wordpress hacking that went on before hand. This all began a number of months ago when
The Humanized Reader first came to my attention. This is the future, I thought...page-less websites, no more next buttons brilliant! I then got thinking about how I could implement a similar thing to the blog, and one weekend when all other entertainment had run out, I decided to dissect the code and work out how it was working and whether this was even possible.
I will be the first to admit that JavaScript is not my strongest language, not by a long way. But after a little tinkering, I managed to bodge a working version of the humanized code into the existing wordpress code that runs the blog. So now when you reach the bottom of the page, the little ajax request object goes speeding off and grabs the next five posts, and lo, one ever-scrolling edwilde.com (well, until you reach the first post - I tried, and gave up after 10 minutes of scrolling).
Unfortunately, in the process I have somehow managed to break the tagging system, I am sure it isn't critical though and it will be fixed in time. I also dread to think what this does to the server load, I will be implementing a caching system pretty soon to elevate this. In the meantime, I am sure it will survive.
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