# \[ANN\] New rails site: AJAX Webbrowser

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-site-ajax-webbrowser/62219>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 1, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-site-ajax-webbrowser/62219 "2006-06-01T17:42:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Scott_Fortmann-Roe)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-site-ajax-webbrowser/62219/1 "2006-06-01T17:42:28Z")

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Heres my Ruby on Rails webbrowser:

[https://palary.org](https://palary.org)

Sorry, but I just couldn’t resist.

Cheers,  
Scott

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Scott_Fortmann-Roe)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-site-ajax-webbrowser/62219/2 "2006-06-01T17:58:04Z")

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“Scott Fortmann-Roe” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote  
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> Heres my Ruby on Rails webbrowser:
> 
> [https://palary.org](https://palary.org)
> 
> Sorry, but I just couldn’t resist.
> 
> Cheers,  
> Scott

nice. I’m not sure about the ‘freedom’ claim though. Couldn’t they just  
block [palary.org](http://palary.org) too?

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Scott_Fortmann-Roe)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-site-ajax-webbrowser/62219/3 "2006-06-02T01:18:36Z")

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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:41:13PM +0200, Scott Fortmann-Roe wrote:

> Heres my Ruby on Rails webbrowser:  
> [https://palary.org](https://palary.org)

Who renders the HTML coming from the remote site? I just looked at  
Google, and the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button appeared as "I" …

If your code is doing the rendering, then this would be a good solution  
for the person who wanted to build thumbnails of what the far end of a  
link actually looked like …

-jim

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Scott\_Fortmann-Roe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Scott_Fortmann-Roe)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-site-ajax-webbrowser/62219/4 "2006-06-02T13:29:58Z")

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Of course people could block [palary.org](http://palary.org). But more domain names/ip  
address could be set up to allow access to it. This is already the  
situation in countries like China when connecting to proxy servers. In  
effect [Palary.org](http://Palary.org) acts as a proxy server without the difficulty of  
setting it up.

When you access a site, the html is downloaded from the foreign site  
to the palary server. The palary server edits it (strips javascript,  
rewrites links, etc) and then feeds the modified code back to your  
computer which sticks it in an iframe . Your browser still does the  
rendering.

Cheers, Scott