I can see them, but haven't thought of commenting on them. I can't think of anything relevant to say - "I like 33% of your books and haven't read the others?"
I helped Tom getting it working on his blog - congratulations for getting it yourself - I forget what was difficult about getting it working on his.
I noticed it, presumably when I was commenting on something, since of course RSS means I don't ever visit your blog regularly.
I dislike that it makes the page load slower. I wish javascript could be parsed at the end - so people who wanted to ignore stuff could. I suppose it messes with the page layout, so it could be modified, and forced to work, but that isn't how they do it by default.
Would it help if I put it at the bottom of the sidebar instead of the top?
As you guessed, it was at Tom's page that I saw and liked it.
I really wasn't expecting a lot of comments about it, but when I learned that at least one of my readers can't see it, I wondered if anyone could.
I'm not sure just what I'm going to do with it. I don't think I'm interested in the social networking aspects of Shelfari -- but it seems like a cool way to display favorite books, or "books of the week" or something.
Does JS not get loaded later if you do src='' ???
Here's another piece to the puzzle: If I go to the blog page directly, I see the bookshelves. But if I go to the blog through my home page, where I then see it in a frame, the shelves are missing. Is there a problem with javascript and frames? For what it's worth, the Feedjit widget still works in the frame.
Jon, can you answer Mike's question? It's beyond me.
I can see the bookshelves if I go to your blog instead of the home page.
You have to link to shelfari directly - which does use a "src=" bit. I suspect the trouble is due to the div not having a height nor width, and so the parser doesn't know what to do with it until the javascript is loaded.
It might work better (apparent speed) if it were lower on the page. The sidebar is already loaded after the center content, so that is good.
Probably shelfari is doing something strange, and so it is broken by the frames. I vaguely recall some trouble on Tom's blog, when we wanted to make it a little different than what they do by default.
I'm using the option where it automatically fits itself to my blog, so perhaps that's what gets messed up in the framing.
