LJ limitations

[gothwalk]

I'm beginning to get a little irritated with the blocking of javascript, embdedded video, and so on on LJ. There are a lot of cool toys out there at the moment, from flickr photo badges to del.icio.us tag clouds, that I'd like to attach to my personal blog, but due to the fact that an awful lot of them need JS to run, I can only use them on dukestreet.org.

Anyone done the site embedding thing I hear you can do? How well does it work out?

Comments

[salith.livejournal.com]

Can't you embed an iFrame or something?

[(Anonymous)]

I could, but I find them ugly, codewise, and they're not search engine friendly. I stick close to a notion that says that if you can't find it in google, it's not really on the web.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Well, do you need your tag clouds etc to be googleable? If you embed your lj into a site (I presume that's what you mean by site embedding), would you not have the same problems?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

No, the javacripty bits wouldn't be googleable, but shouldn't need to, either. However, if I were to embed LJ with an iframe in another site, the content remains on LJ, and anyone finding it via a search engine will only see the LJ page, not my schnazzy tag-and-flickr'd cutting-edge deSign'd site.

Some poking around shows that PHP wizardry can quite possibly sort it out for actual inclusion, though, and some cleverness might allow me to keep the LJ comment system and still have the whole thing in my own livery. I'll experiment when I find some time.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought the suggestion was to put the taggy goodness in an iframe in your lj, not put your lj in an iframe.

Have you seen my flickr badge on my info page? It's not as good as the real ones, but it does show random piccies. It's supposed to link to those pics, but I don't see how it can without the badge server doing more work, and awkward work at that, so I changed it to always link to my main photo page.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_nifty/138178.html

Haven't tried it myself.