Ajax makes life more fun :)
So, what have I been doing since last Friday?
Well, I’ve been busy with the prototype I’m building. Not quite sure what I did exactly on which day, but so far I’ve got comments to work. Mostly adding comments Ajax-style. Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, makes web interfaces more interactive. It relies heavily on XMLHttpRequest, which enables the use of asynchronous server communication. For more information see Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications.
After that I added deleting of comments. Having done this in a more traditional way, I had to wait for a new page every time I deleted a comment. Since this too was annoying, I used Ajax here too. And it sure made the page more responsive.
I’ve also added very basic authentication support, which basically boils down to having to login to be able to edit, delete or post a new entry. During this process, I made sure that users who are not logged in are shielded from all this management functionaly.
Next in line is support for multiple blogs and after that caching is waiting around the corner.