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Printable Amazon wishlists of my friends, at least, those that I could find:
Here we see that Chris has been nurturing a covert interest in the work of Jock Sturges for lo these many years while it is confirmed that Ryan indeed likes guns. Tamara likes books, and, I’m shocked to realize, I apparently need more box sets.
If you use your browser’s print preview feature, you’ll notice that the wishlists print out as nice, compact lists without graphics or excessive whitespace. Except in Safari. That’s because CSS is magic.
Actually, Internet Explorer doesn’t recognize some of the nicer CSS rules, either. Best results with Phoenix, or maybe Camino.
For what it’s worth, I used:
The only big problem I encountered is that Amazon’s XML server is extravagantly slow and error-prone. In general, each wishlist takes about 10-30 seconds to generate, and that’s why the above wishlists aren’t created on the fly. Man, I’m hungry. I think it’s time to go home.
Source code and so forth can be found at the permanent location.
comments
so are these dynamic then? nice. i need to update mine… i got five or six of the things on my list.
posted by chris on April 3, 2003 12:52 AM
oops… i guess they aren’t.
posted by chris on April 3, 2003 12:54 AM
nope. that was the plan, but amazon’s XML server is way too slow. so i just made a cron job that updates the wishlists every now and then.
i see you removed all of the sturges books. that’s probably for the best.
posted by jacob on April 3, 2003 1:08 AM
well, i have them all, don’t i?
posted by chris on April 3, 2003 1:57 AM
that is really rad, jacob. now i understand why you had those dorky CSS links in lorum ipsum.
posted by sentry on April 3, 2003 2:44 AM
whatever you did for the comments popping into the page rocks. give me your secrets.
posted by sentry on April 3, 2003 2:51 AM
the nice thing about amazon is that it’s useful regardless of whether you even buy from it. its recommendations system actually works most of the time, and has introduced me to milorad pavic, danilo kis, julio cortazar, all sorts of movies, etc.
for the comments thingy, basically you set block of text as display:none initially, and then pass that block’s id to a javascript function that toggles the display property. i had written my own code, but it only worked in a mozilla and IE. so i stole somebody else’s code.
posted by jacob on April 3, 2003 9:35 AM
You mean you liberated somebody else’s code.
posted by seth on April 3, 2003 12:49 PM
that joke isn’t funny anymore.
posted by morrissey on April 3, 2003 4:58 PM
wow! super cool!
and i’ve just been playing zelda and soul calibur 2. who wants to burn some souls with me?
posted by dakota on April 5, 2003 12:44 AM
i do! unfortunately, we’re not allowed to have days off at work now that you’re gone.
posted by jacob on April 9, 2003 10:57 AM
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