So recently I published a post that contained a quick and simple browser detection snippet for jQuery. In that snippet, I accidently left a reference to a function called “initSafariSearch()”.
This function simply replaces the standard boring input text box with the nice Safari style one.
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So I’ve been publishing more and more of my code up on Github, yes I will SVN it up to Google Code too! There are a few classes that people may not know how to use or why to use them, so here’s a quick run through of the ones that reside in “com.firestartermedia.lib.as3.data“:
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I’m in the middle of creating a new YouTube gadget and part of the specification is that it allows the user to see the videos on a time-line. The idea behind it is that companies can then have a simple and sleek gadget that allows them to display their videos, whether they’re viral or community influenced (much like Sprite’s Green Eyed World), in a simple time-line sort of format.
So using the MVC code I created for my other gadgets I was able to easily adapt it, create a new 2D carousel and then was left with the task of creating the visual time-line control and also sorting the videos by their date. Now the YouTube GData API allows you to pass a parameter called “orderby” with the value “published” which returns the entries according to when they were uploaded, the latest first.
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I’ve been creating a whole load of gadgets for YouTube Brand Channels that run off data from playlists. The only issue with this is that YouTube playlists only return around 25 entries; you therefore need to specify the “start-index” in the request you make to the GData API.
Now this is a bit of a pain if you want to search a playlist’s videos for a particular term. But there is a way to do it. I’ve created a set of YouTube GData Service classes for Actionscript 3. The motivation behind these classes was to be able to search through a playlist’s videos for a particular term.
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