You know how when you were a kid, and you had to clean your room on a sunny day when you would rather be outside, so you just cleaned it by stuffing everything under the bed or in the closet, where Mom wouldn’t see it? After all, if she doesn’t see it, she doesn’t have […]
I’m not sure how I missed it, but there’s actually a third validator, along with the W3C and WDG/htmlhelp.com validators: Page Valet offers builtin accessibility checking (WCAG A – AAA or Section 508), a variety of more-convenient-than-W3C output formats (including errors highlighted within the source, alongside it, or a cool if imperfect javascript WYSIWYG display). […]
Overshadowed by the buzz over TrackBack (at least for me) is another new feature with incredible potential: plugins let you write your own MT tags. Want a tag that displays the number of unread messages in your mailbox? Just write it. Want a container tag for categories that combines and, or, and not? Just write […]
I would dearly love to gather up everyone who has ever attempted to teach English composition to anyone now involved in XHMTL/XML/DTD spec writing, so that I could give them all a medal for their efforts, and then shoot them all for their miserable failure to achieve anything resembling results. In order to make a […]
Fantastic news, if it works out. Marcus says a patch has been checked in to allow Mozilla to tell javascript what’s selected in a textarea. Not only is that good in terms of allowing bold/italic/link buttons to work cross-browser for things like weblog posting forms, it also gives me some hope for the other longterm […]
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to 2.2 we go… More later, right now I’m just putting my hacks back in, and having to rewrite several. <later>Clearly, the big thing for this release is TrackBack, a sort of automated referrer/link-back system which pings other TrackBack-enabled weblogs when you post something that refers to a post or category […]
Jonathon asks if writing the mailto link with javascript is necessary, when his email address is entity-encoded. I’m afraid that it’s a question of whether a kitten is better hidden with its head under the couch or under a blanket: if its rump is still sticking out, it doesn’t much matter. The problem with most […]
Arnold Kling: Everyone who follows blogging wonders about the economic model. Rick Bruner: My reader (who didn’t want the message made public) specifically wondered about Enetation’s business model, which as I mentioned in my prior note about them, is not exactly transparent or well marketed, if there is one at all. (No fee, no ads, […]
When I set up my Blogger Pro FAQ, I wanted to make it a little more collaborative than my Blogger FAQ, so I added two non-topical comment threads, “Suggest a question” and “Suggest an answer”. Time passed, and I rarely visited the actual page (someone comments, I follow the link in the notification email straight […]
Inspired by Morbus’s easy hack to give anonymous commenters a “[No Author]” name in the “Recent comments” box on the blog editing page, I decided to just name them “Anonymous” (which also gets rid of the rather strange “Posted by: on June 22, 2002” in the comment byline). In your mt directory, in lib/MT/App/Comments.pm, look […]