Web Services Can Be Used in Dynamic and Static Content

Dynamic content and web services complement each other. Flare topics generated from HTML5 targets can use JavaScript to call a web service to show dynamic content based on what is returned from the web service. An advantage of dynamic content is it is always up-to-date. Disadvantages include slower loading times due to extra scripting and… Continue reading Web Services Can Be Used in Dynamic and Static Content

Flare to MediaWiki to Flare (part 6, of wiki template articles and snippets)

A mapping effort chronicled in a blog is less than exciting to read. So let’s switch gears and lay some groundwork for the parser. We will use a Wikipedia article as the first test and as a guide for what parts of the markup to tackle firstly. Since wikis are moving targets, we will work… Continue reading Flare to MediaWiki to Flare (part 6, of wiki template articles and snippets)