Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Site Update
We've made some changes to the Gritwire WebTop. After a quiet rollout we've been working away at fixing bugs and smoothing out rough spots. I'll go into more detail about the updates in future posts, but here's a quick list:
- Anonymous access
- Recommended SpeedFeeds
- Recommended Quicklinks
- Quicklinks folders
- Folder, Quicklink and SpeedFeed ordering
- SpeedFeed and individual article ratings
- Videocast support
- Discussion messaging
- Weather
Something strange seems to have happened to the weather widget today. We've been able to let the widget directly pull the weather from Yahoo! with no problems for the last couple months. Today the widget can't access it anymore. Our best guess is that Yahoo! removed what's called a cross domain file that allows remote flash files to access content on their site, but we're not sure that's what it is. We can fix it though, and we will do as soon as we can.
As I said, more to come describing these new features.
