That's right - the fantastic Score Results website (a partner site for the soon-to-be released ScoreSure website) now includes code so that you can display your own league tables on a blog/website as a widget. Just a couple of lines of code (copied and pasted) and you're away!

The trickiest part is the use of an iframe (and its auto-resizing code) to display the league table. Why iframes and not ajax (the most common method suggested when resizing iframes becomes an issue?) Well, every entry in the league table can be clicked on, to display team members, member profiles and so on. Although possible, writing ajax functions and callbacks to handle every clickable link would be a nightmare - iframes are just easier to implement!

The headache comes when you want to include the league table (hosted at www.scoreresults.co.uk) in an iframe hosted on another domain. Obviously scripting across domains isn't possible, so there's a bit of trickery involved, to make sure that the iframe is resized after content has been loaded into it.

Here's an example of the widget in use. The league table below was included in this blog by simply pasting the following two lines of code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.scoreresults.co.uk/js/leaguetable_widget.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">drawFrame("2DD610F1CA7342A0BEF9E50540F2FFB5");</script>

A big part of the ScoreSure product range is the website where players can upload results from games and keep a history of their progress over time. By collating players scores, it's also possible to maintain and display league tables (see earlier post) and so on, which has lead to us using a second domain for this service: www.scoreresults.co.uk.

The website is almost complete and should already be useable for anyone wanting to give it a whirl.

But it's ok to judge a device by its enclosure.
Thanks to Robot Steve it's already time to think about packaging and how to house what could very well become a commercial product. Already a couple of domains have been bought, and the game scoring device has a spanky new name: ScoreSure.

The domain www.scoreresults.co.uk has been reserved as a place for displaying results and league tables once they've been uploaded. Results will be arranged according to the game type - e.g. http://golf.scoreresults.co.uk and so on.