Wednesday January 26, 2005

Yet Another WYSIWYG Editor

widgEditor generates standards-compliant HTML, a big step up from the other HTML WYSIWYG editors out there. Don't get me wrong, the others are cool, and leaps and bounds beyond my capabilities. Yet it has always annoyed me that they don't generate proper HTML. widgEditor also appears to be quite lightweight and focussed on the basics (bold, italics, list, links). Some day soon I'll have to do a review of the editors Roller users and see if its worth the bother to add Yet Another. At the least it would make a good editor for Comments.
( Jan 26 2005, 01:45:26 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Thursday January 20, 2005

Holy Macros RollerMan!

JunkFood has two excellent posts on hacking Roller. The second one (the most recent) in particular levels valid criticism of Roller's documentation. At one point is was better documented, what variables were available, which macros, the interesting values and methods of the data classes. But that has all fallen woefully out of date.
( Jan 20 2005, 05:06:09 PM ) Roller Permalink
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The GMail Virus

I'm doing my part to not spread the gmail virus. I've got six invites, I've had them a long time, and you can't have them! And neither can you, so don't ask.
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no-follow refinements

I'm conflicted on rel="nofollow?; that is, I doubt it'll do any real good, but I also doubt it'll do any real harm. However, I find the potential for harm to be the greater of the two. I like that people are already inventing refinements to nofollow. Based on that idea I'd like to add vetting to Roller's Comments.

I don't get many comments, so it'd be easy enough for me to go in and mark each one "good", and then display good comments sans nofollow. While I'm at it, I can delete Spam; but until then Spam gets the nofollow treatment. Huh, Lou had the same idea.

I wonder when I'll get around to doing this. Not soon, more than likely.
( Jan 20 2005, 10:29:50 AM ) Technology Permalink
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I'd just like to say that...

...I hate mobile phones. Hate them hate them hate them. I hate the telephone generally...[freeform goodness]

That's what I've been trying to say for quite some time.
( Jan 20 2005, 10:23:12 AM ) Personal Permalink
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Monday January 17, 2005

Meet me in St. Louis, Redux

Well, here I am in Denver. I'll be meeting Matt Raible at CB Potts around 6 PM tonight. If you're in the Denver area stop on by and lets have a drink together.
( Jan 17 2005, 10:46:44 AM ) Personal Permalink
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Friday January 14, 2005

Comment Spam Management

I finally got hit by a significant spam attack, though not as bad as many I've read about. Since Roller doesn't have good mass-comment management (it's on the list) I cobbled something together in my Latest Comments page. You might need to customize it (particularly the <form> action) and it sometimes throws exceptions. So use with care, if you dare. Finally, if you do use it you will end up on the Edit Weblog page with a partial entry - DO NOT save anything here, just click back to Latest Comments or to your front Weblog page. And note that the Pages might be cached so may not reflect comment deletion.
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Thursday January 13, 2005

Disorderly RSS

In Syndicating Ordered Lists in RSS Dare outlines the problems with Netflix's RSS feeds. Some of this is due to the feeds being "incomplete", some due to problems in RSS. I wanted to add the comment that Yahoo's Buzz Index, at least the Movers and Leaders, share the same problems.

Finally, Dare throws in a little poke at Atom and a desired "RSS parity." I'd like to mention that such parity, not necessarily desired by all, is just a baseline, not a primary objective. Solutions to the RSS problems raised here have been discussed, particularly a mechanism by which to retire/delete entries . I don't recall if this made it into the spec (and I don't have the time at the moment to investigate) but there was general support for the concept.

And entry rankings/ratings/sorting have also been suggested for Atom, but deferred to extensions. RSS supports extensions (and the Atom-Syntax list has been hashing out extensions, ad nauseum), so Netflix and Yahoo could easily enough fix this problem. Hopefully the light Dare has shined on Netflix's RSS (and mine on Yahoo Buzz) will prod them into producing compliant and meaningful feeds.
( Jan 13 2005, 01:41:48 PM ) Technology Permalink
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