doesn't seem possible to emulate covers=medium widget parameter?
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1jurjanpaul
Congratulations on building this successful application!
I have two questions:
1. JSON API's coverheight and coverwidth parameters don't have the effect I expect them to have: I don't understand how the provided value affects the actual referenced cover's size (seems relative i.s.o. absolute). Could you describe their effect more clearly in the API documentation?
2. I really would like to have a means to retrieve references to covers of fixed absolute height (like the widget does with the 'covers' parameter).
Thanks!
I think the widget is a fun element on my blog, but as it is, it slows down loading and rendering of other layout elements on the page. That's why I would like to emulate the widget using jQuery and the JSON(P) API to only load and render the books once the rest of the page has finished rendering... At the moment this doesn't seem completely possible, apart from making the browser scale the cover pictures, which would be extra slow and looks terrible... :-)
I have two questions:
1. JSON API's coverheight and coverwidth parameters don't have the effect I expect them to have: I don't understand how the provided value affects the actual referenced cover's size (seems relative i.s.o. absolute). Could you describe their effect more clearly in the API documentation?
2. I really would like to have a means to retrieve references to covers of fixed absolute height (like the widget does with the 'covers' parameter).
Thanks!
I think the widget is a fun element on my blog, but as it is, it slows down loading and rendering of other layout elements on the page. That's why I would like to emulate the widget using jQuery and the JSON(P) API to only load and render the books once the rest of the page has finished rendering... At the moment this doesn't seem completely possible, apart from making the browser scale the cover pictures, which would be extra slow and looks terrible... :-)
