Ajax Girl

I was excited when Google announced their first JavaScript API that allows you to write back to a service.

Now, they have released a Blogger client that does the same, which means that you can now manipulate your blog posts directly from JavaScript.

Along with the release there are a few examples such as:

• A tool that takes your upcoming Calendar entries and creates blog posts of the events
• A code snippet that you can add to your website that enables visitors to your site to click on a link to comment on your content on their own blog
• Code that allows you to search blogs on various topics, find entries, and again allow users to comment on their own blog

And finally, Blog.gears, an offline blog editor:

I tend to write a fair share of blog posts, and whenever I am writing them while offline I tend to open up Textmate to do the write-up. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could open up my blog editor and do it all while I am offline?

The architecture behind the editor follows the pattern of:

• The UI looks to the local DB for data
• When an event happens it gets queued
• When an event happens the UI tries to send it to the cloud
• Events have status flags to let the system know what is happening

We interviewed Pamela Fox about the application, and she went through the architecture at a high level, and also did a screencast of the application itself.

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/172277529/bloggears-an-offline-blogger-client-using-the-new-gdata-blogger-javascript-client