While I’ve never had a problem with allowing HTML in my comments (other than the time I left an <i> open), there are plenty of tags that I don’t really want anyone being able to post, not to mention that I really don’t want people posting PHP in comments. Thanks to Brad Choate’s Sanitize plugin, […]
Little something for the RadioUserland users: <pre> And for that matter: <title> <head>, and even <table width=”5000″>. Oh, um, you did update Radio.root after yesterday’s fix for the double-decoding bug in the aggregator, didn’t you? I sure hope so. One more bug to make Radio safe for incessant code posters: there’s still a double-decode between […]
It looks like our year of living abnormally high in Google’s search results is coming to an end with this update. Probably as a result of not having enough current news results last September, Google has spent the last year tweaking their algorithm and their crawling habits to make frequently updated pages appear higher in […]
Dorothea says that using the HTML <pre> element to display formatted code in weblog posts is a bad idea. She’s right: since a <pre> line can’t be broken, everything else in the page has to break, and break it will; floats will float down to the bottom of the page, things will overlay the code, […]
Sam also asks if he should have TrackBack RDF in his main page. I say no, for two reasons. First, it just encourages foolish behavior: if you are pinging a TrackBack entry you are replying to a specific post, and so you should be linking to that post, but if you click your bookmarklet on […]
Thank Ghu, Sam Ruby has Trackback. I’ve been commenting so much over there of late that I’ve got more content on his blog than on my own. Thanks to his integration of local comments and TrackBack-delivered remote comments, now I can have my comments appear both places.
Since there seems to be a bit of buzz about RSS feeds of comments today (even though it’s so last January), I thought I’d throw together an RSS 1.0 comment feed template to go with my (well, mostly Bill Kearney’s) RSS 0.91 template. Along the way, I added a plugin, since you can’t get at […]
Since I requested the screenshot, I should certainly point to EspressoBlog, Phil Ulrich’s new OSX bloggerAPI/metaWeblogAPI client. Yet another reason to want a Mac. (Parabola’s daughter? Phil did the first weblog API client I ever used, way back when, named Parabola. Still listed as the only bloggerAPI PHP glue at xmlrpc.com, despite having been an […]
Shannon Campbell : “Someone needs to write a Movable Type Plug-in that will echo all the keystrokes anyone enters in a comment box.” Ulp. I’m not going to do it, but I do know how it can be done.
Dorothea : “If I can’t say something nice, I shouldn’t say anything at all… especially on the Web.”