Pretty funny day today. It all started with Christian Heilmann posting this on Twitter:
Another simple, but very useful and needed web site: http://ismycomputeron.com
And Dion Almaer who runs Ajaxian.com followed up with the question we all had:
We just need a JSON version and then we are all set!
Of course Heilmann wrote a JSON API for this really useful service using YQL and posted it on Twitter.
@dalmaer that what YQL is for. Finally ismycomputeron.com as a jsonp api: http://is.gd/eXyo §
I figured we had to add another level of abstraction to this beast so I wrote a really simple plugin using jQuery making it easy to integrate into your web apps and posted it on Twitter.
@codepo8 Now as a jQuery-plugin http: //jsbin.com/ofiwi
After that Christian felt he had to let the world know about the R&D being done in different parts of the world on the topic “is it on”, so he blogged and tweeted about it.
But I know my script was actually not that good, it was not unobtrusive, and my fellow tweeter icaaq told me friendly but respectfully that:
@hising not the most unobtrusive script I’ve seen though
Even though my feelings were a little bit hurt, I took the time to rewrite the script in order to be more unobtrusive, and now you can find the new version here http://frontendbook.com/sandbox/is-it-on/
What to expect next in the evolution of is-it-on?
- Widget for blogs
- Mobile version (an iphone is not a computer right?)
- Adding configurable options to the script (uppercase, lowercase etc)
- Adding error handling to script
Whatever, it was good fun. More of that.
