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xzxzzx · 25th April 2006, 20:00

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Originally posted by zootm
Assuming you're asking about the thing he's talking about, the Media Library was changed from downloading a ZIP of the top 500 stations and doing a client-side search, to doing a server-side search through (and I have to say I don't get this bit of the implementation, although I guess it'd be easy to implement) an embedded HTML/AJAX search.

Client-side is obviously nippier but it's not a great technical solution, unfortunately.

I don't think AJAX is a very good solution. Besides ease of implementation, and scalability, it's really quite a poor solution. I got annoyed using the mentioned interface, and I didn't even want to find a station to listen to.

I think there are significantly better implementations which retain most of the important data client-side, while retaining the asynchronousness, and maintaining scalabilty. Consider, for example, that the often changing information (now playing, # of listeners) is generally the least important to search by (and could be updated as the list is displayed).

zootm · 25th April 2006, 20:51

The same implementation, but not using HTML etc., would probably be better yet.

Warrior of the Light · 25th April 2006, 21:33

Don't feed the trolls

tuckerm · 25th April 2006, 21:43

Everytime you complain of SHOUTcast's new look god kills a kitten.

k_rock923 · 25th April 2006, 22:40

*sigh*

dlichterman · 25th April 2006, 23:17

xzxzzx · 26th April 2006, 13:53

Quote:

Originally posted by zootm
The same implementation, but not using HTML etc., would probably be better yet.

That would be a step forward, yeah.

tuckerm · 26th April 2006, 21:41

@dlich

Mr_007 · 5th May 2006, 05:17

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