DIY Badges
May 10th, 2007
We've had a couple of requests for a flash-based badge or a badge, which aggregates all the campaigns of a member into one super badge. To help this effort we've rewritten the campaign pages to display a variety of different file formats. For example take the campaign for RAM as an example:
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3
Using our new friendly formats you can now covert the campaign easily into a variety of formats.
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3 // Produces HTML
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3.xml // Produces XML
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3.rss // Produces RSS Feed
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3.png // Produces PNG Badge
For people wanting to roll their own badge the XML version of the campaign would be a great place to start. Flash digests XML in a fairly straight-forward way and I don't think it would take much to produce a flash badge, which would use the XML rendering of the campaign to create a truly interactive badge for the campaign.
We will be playing with our one widget tool-kit, which we'll pass along as soon as its ready to anyone who is interested, in the meantime if any of you flash gurus want to take a crack and a Pledgie flash badge be my guest :-)

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