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jQuery-ed Google Blog Bar
A 4KB jQuery plugin instead of a 118KB Google Blog Bar!!
I have shown before how to use Google Blog Bar as a related posts widget, But when I actually tried to use it on my site, I didn't like all these JavaScript/CSS files that I've to include.
And since I already use jQuery -and who doesn't- I decided to rebuild the Blog Bar from scratch.
Advantages Of My jQuery-ed Google Blog Bar:
- Much lighter: Using Google Blog Bar, you will have to include 3 Javascript files (2 files Actually , but fist one dynamically loads the third ):
- Google AJAX API Loader file which is 15KB
- And AJAX Search API file which is 72KB
- Google Blog Bar file which is 31KB
- Plus 2 CSS files that you can go without them and weighs 26KB total
So, Total of Javascript files is 118KB vs. My 4KB Blog Bar!
Of course, I will not count jQuery 55KB, cause -as I said- it is an essential include. - More Control: Google Blog Bar will do repeated JSON queries to get more results that I didn't need and can't be disabled.
- It is jQuery-ed, Which is the most important :) One can add extra pretty jQuery effects..
- Works as related posts widget: When no query expression was set , By Default plugin use current page tags to create search expression by ORing those tags.
Go to Project page to download latest version...
Go to my blog to see it In Action
