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ajax-alexa-thumbnails

This project is being deprecated because Amazon's AWS Alexa Site Thumbnail service is being deprecated. Webpage Thumbnails — Screenshots via Page Glimpse in JavaScriptAjax Alexa ThumbnailsA JavaScript module built on the Yahoo! User Interface library that allow asynchronous (Ajax) usage of ... [More] Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service. The project consists of a server-side component written in PHP which makes the cross-domain request to Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service, and a JavaScript component which makes Ajax requests to configured server-side component and caches the results. FeaturesUses YUI library and registers itself as a module 1.4kb minified version Caching to reduce number of server and web service requests Ajax request queue to prevent multiple request for the same resource Configurable (in JavaScript) for small/large thumbnails, and wrap with anchor (link) YUI Logging support for development and testing ExamplesResume's Projects with thumbnail tooltips Hovering on a listed Project link shows a tooltip that fetches a thumbnail of the website. Uses the YUI Tooltip Widget Simple examples showing how to load and initialize the project Usage with standard loading Usage with YUI Loader RequiresAmazon Web Services account YAHOO! User Interface (YUI) 2.5.2+ Running web server with PHP It is required for you to have an Amazon Web Services account signed-up with the Alexa Site Thumbnail service. The AWS configuration resides in the alexa_service.php file; here is where your AWS Access Identifiers are set. Usage Overview [Less]