Tech Note: Ajax-Imbued Related Tag Popups
Those little tags you see at the bottom of each LGF article are now Ajax-infused. When you hover your little mousie over a tag, up pops a list of links to the last five LGF articles with that tag.
The code uses jQuery with the tooltip extension Levitip (with a custom source handler), to make an Ajax call that retrieves the last five articles. If this causes too much of a load on the server I may limit it to registered users, but this version works for everyone.
If you’re hovering over a tag on the front page, the popup shows the most recent 5 entries with that tag. But if you’re on the page for an individual article (with or without comments), the popup shows the entries earlier than the current one. This little twist is intended to let you surf the waves of related entries back through time.