GrammaFone

The demo site has been updated with the latest code -svn #272.

Features of this release are:

• Hover information fixed after drag/drop in playlist
• Install on Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP (XAMPP) fixed
• Updated Amazon code to the current Amazon Associates Web Service for artwork
• New default browse Mode.
• Player verified with IE7, finally!

That’s correct, you can now install GrammaFone on a local windows machine running XAMPP, and you can use IE7. And you get artwork from Amazon providing you’ve got an API key.  I’ve tested this on both XP and Vista, and things look good so far.

This all came about because I was recently forced to use a Windows development environment for work, so I decided to see how hard it would be to get GrammaFone to run in that world in my spare time.  Turns out it was pretty easy.

Apart from some platform dependent php checks, this one was a big problem:

var r = document.createRange();

In case you’re wondering, this call is nice for certain browsers, but not so much IE, so now we just stuff the innerHTML from the ajax return into the playlist, and everyone is happy.  And yes, that includes Google Chrome!

Can you imagine a world with GrammaFone on a webkit browser and an iPhone with flash support in your hand?  NICE!

I’d love to hear from anyone installing this on a windows platform.  Remember though, you will need curl support to get the artwork from Amazon.

Enjoy!