Zintext Tweaks

So I have really had my head buried in the javascript books lately working on Zintext. Linking keywords to ebay searches sounds like an easy thing to do, but in practice its pretty difficult to do right.

First of all the javascript technique I was using had a pretty large bug in it that made it more or less useless. I had to come up with a better way of crawling the html of the page to be linked and then altering the html to create the links. In doing this the DOM and I have become very close, not that I wanted to be friends. Then I had problems with the spacing of links. Sometimes keywords would be all clustered towards the top, sometimes all in a group in the middle, not evenly spaced. I came up with a pretty elegant solution for this, but now the words I am linking are not always the best. For example president will be in the same paragraph as ipod video and zin will link president. Not exactly what we want, so thats my main focus right now.

At any rate, if you were holding off using it for any technical reason, it should now work without problems on any sites. As usual feedback is always welcome, thanks for using zintext.

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