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Improving Jeremy Keith's CAT news example from http://24ways.org/2011/conditional-loading-for-responsive-designs
var cat = {};
/**
* cat.NewsBox
* Retrieves news from Google
*/
cat.NewsBox = (function(){
function NewsBox(searchTerm, injectFn) {
this.searchTerm = searchTerm;
this.injectFn = injectFn;
this.dom = document.createElement('div');
}
NewsBox.getURL = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news';
NewsBox.template = '\
<article>\
<a href="{unescapedUrl}">\
<h3>{titleNoFormatting}</h3>\
</a>\
<p>{content}</p>\
</article>\
';
NewsBox.prototype = {
get: function() {
// Process JSONP request
var me = this,
callback = '_' + +new Date,
script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = NewsBox.getURL
+ '?v=1.0&q=' + this.searchTerm
+ '&callback=' + callback;
window[callback] = function(data) {
delete window[callback];
me.populate(data.responseData.results);
};
document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].appendChild(script);
},
populate: function(news) {
var html = [];
// Populate the template (tokens: `{...}`)
for (var item, i = 0, l = news.length; i < l; ++i) {
item = news[i];
html[i] = NewsBox.template.replace(
/\{([^}]+)\}/g,
function($0, $1){
return item.hasOwnProperty($1) ? item[$1] : $0;
}
);
}
this.dom.innerHTML = html.join('');
this.injectFn();
}
};
return NewsBox;
}());
new cat.NewsBox('cats', function() {
// Inject news list into the document:
document.body.appendChild(this.dom);
});
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rwaldron commented Dec 4, 2011

Word.

This looks great and I wish more JavaScript bloggers put at least this much effort into their example code.

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