From the department of 5-minute Javascript hacks comes this little gem, which handles the 'Random photo' to the right. It uses the JSON-API Google API to get the data from the Picasa-Web-Albums.

<script><!-- //http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/json.html
// Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
// http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
// (c) Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org> 2010
var es = [];
function r() {
       var idx = Math.floor(Math.random()*es.length);
       var m = es[idx]['media\$group'];
       var i = document.getElementById("i");
       document.getElementById("t").innerHTML = m['media\$description']['\$t'];
       i.src = m['media\$thumbnail'][0]['url'];
       setTimeout("r();",10*1000);
}
function j(p) {
       es = p['feed']['entry'];
       r();
}
function picasa() {
       var url='http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/jan.dittmer' +
               '?kind=photo&thumbsize=160c&access=public&alt=json&callback=j';
       var s = document.createElement('script');
       s.src = url; document.body.appendChild(s);
}
window.onload = picasa;
//--></script>
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jan.dittmer"> <img id="i"> </a>
<div id="t"></div>

posted at 20:56 | path: /web | permanent link to this entry