In March the Blogger Launched five blog views that used cutting edge technologies to transform a blog into a web app. Back then, visitors had to enter a special URL like http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/view/sidebar or install a chrome extension to switch to one of the new interfaces. Six months later, Blogger created two new views (Classic and Magazine) and added the list of dynamic views to Blogger's template editing section so that blog authors can replace their template with one of the seven views that are now available.
There are three kinds of dynamic views: photo-oriented templates (flipcard, mosaic, snapshot), text-oriented templates (classic, sidebar) and magazine-like templates (magazine, timeslide). If you don't have a photoblog, classic, sidebar and magazine are the best dynamic views for your blog. Blogger's new templates bring a lot cool features and change the way readers interact with a blog. Infinite scrolling replaces pagination, blog posts are loaded using AJAX, Blogger caches blog posts so they load faster, images are downloaded as you browse, you can use keyboard shortcuts (j/k or n/p) to go to the next or previous post just like in Google Reader. There's also instant search that shows the list of results as you type.
The new Themes are powered by AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3.
The Product Manager of Blogger said "We wanted to make this technology available to our users as quickly as possible, and therefore limited the level of customization at launch. We will be releasing many enhancements to Dynamic Views over the coming weeks, including the ability to add gadgets, modify the templates, and ultimately create your own."
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