// We're going to load new page contents repeatedly, at a certain interval setInterval(function(){ // Load the posts using our handy ajax() function ajax({ // We're just requesting a simple web page, so just use GET type: "GET", // We're expecting an RSS feed, which is just an XML file data: "xml", // Get the curent RSS feed (with the latest posts in it) url: "./?feed=rss&paged=1", // Watch for when the RSS feed has been successfully retrieved onSuccess: function( rss ){ // We're loading the new posts into the
that has an ID of "content" var content = document.getElementById("content"); // Get the URL of the most recent post (to make sure that we don't do any // do any duplicate posts) var recentURL = content.getElementsByTagName("h2")[0].firstChild.href; // We're going to iterate through each of the posts in the RSS feed var items = rss.getElementsByTagName("item"); // We're going to be putting all the new items in a separate array var newItems = []; // Go through each of the items for ( var i = 0; i < items.length; i++ ) { // Forcefully stop the loop if an "old" post was found if ( getData( items[i] ).link == recentURL ) break; // Add the new item to the temporary array newItems.push( items[i] ); } // Go through all of the new items, in reverse order, to make sure that they're in // the right order when they go into the site for ( var i = newItems.length - 1; i >= 0; i-- ) { // Place the new entry into the document content.insertBefore( makePost( newItems[i] ), content.firstChild ); } } }); // Load the new page contents once a minute }, 60000 );