Hey guys. This week I decided to take a look at jQuery‘s parsing capabilities so I created a nice all-in-one MySpace Blog Reader widget powered by Ajax and jQuery (demo available here). I aimed to offer a solution that primarily relied on javascript to get it up and running so jQuery is also used to parse our RSS feed as well as provide access to the interface.

From a UI perspective, most blog readers take the user away from the page they are currently on to see the final content – something I wanted to address in my widget. To do so, I the greybox plugin is used to provide a lightweight lightbox style frame inside your browser that will give your users a better blog viewing experience.Fireworks was used to create the widget graphics, and I’ve kept all themes in line with what myspace are using on their own site at the moment.

It’s a small, interesting widget that works fine across all browsers – so feel free to to grab the source code below ;)

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