Sometimes I hate having an 
engineering brain 
.
Last week I was asked about creating a mobile friendly version of my Share This plugin and I’ve also been asked about creating a version that works if JavaScript is disabled. Now I don’t think that realistically many folks are going to want to be posting stuff to a social bookmarking site from their cell phone, nor do I think there is a huge crowd of del.icio.us and digg users that browse with JavaScript disabled; so this wasn’t something I really wanted to do. It just didn’t pass the 80-20 test.
However, it did stick in the back of my mind and nagged at me. I hate it when something I’ve created is lacking in some way - especially something little like this. The final straw on this though, was the realization that I could enable the ‘Share This’ link in feeds if I had an alternate interface besides the little inline pop-up.
So a few hours of hacking later, I’ve implemented this on my site’s feed to test out1. Here is the page you’ll see if you click to share an item from a feed2.
Apologies to my feed subscribers for all of my feed items showing up as unread, hopefully that won’t need to happen again in the near future.
UPDATE: Added screenshot.
- And checked it in to SVN, if you want to play with it. [back]
- I didn’t enable it in my mobile interface, but the capability is in there. [back]
Popularity: 3% [?]
Mark adds this Comment:
Actually, some of us del.ico.us/digg users surf using Firefox + NoScript. So while Javascript isn’t totally disabled, it’s not enabled for every site we come across.
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Raj adds this Comment:
I concur your opinion. Mobile users may not really be looking for bookmarking features.. and yes it will never pass 80-20 test for next couple of years.. unless something changes dramatically and we start using mobile phone to browse instead laptops and desktops
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:21 am
Don West adds this Comment:
This is Great! Thanks for including in the feed.
December 5th, 2006 at 5:30 pm