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
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Flare to MediaWiki to Flare (part 4, Starting to Map MediaWiki Markup to Flare Topic XML)
Parsing the wiki markup for MediaWiki wikis is a challenge. There is not a markup spec to which to build a parser. But parsers exist. There would be no Wikipedia without one. The original plan for this blog series was to use an existing libary to parse wikitext. That may still be the solution. But… Continue reading Flare to MediaWiki to Flare (part 4, Starting to Map MediaWiki Markup to Flare Topic XML)