I've been doing a lot of blog work the last couple days. Because of a bunch of stuff most of you guys don't know about or care about (or care to know about :wink), at Dave's request I updated Jon's, Steve's and John's blogs to the newest version of Movable Type, and installed various protective measures (detailed in this article here if you're actually interested in this kind of stuff). I also de-spammed Steve's and John's blogs (I still have to do Jon's), as both had been spammed here and there at various times, but hopefully those guys blogs should now be protected from that nonsense, at least for a while. Now tonight I have added a new feature to my own blog, which took quite a while to figure out, actually: I now have 'smilies' in my comments. Anyone making a comment will now notice a collection of smilies (or emoticons or whatever else you want to call them), and if you click on them they will pop the text necessary to make that particular smiley in the comment (you won't see the smiley show up in your comment till you either preview it or post it, however). Some of you will like this and some of you will hate it, but I'm all about functionality, so I hope you guys like it. If you don't, then don't use it. Unfortunately for some reason this feature doesn't seem to work in Safari or Firebird, but I suspect it's some kind of Javascript setting or something that I'm not gonna investigate right now. In any event, this is clearly one of my more tedious and dull entries, and for that I apologize, but I wanted to point out my new feature. Trust me, I'm probably as bored as you all are. And on that note, I'm off to bed :yawn
Comments (10)
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Wheeeeeeeeee!
Posted by Ponnerbell | February 5, 2004 5:28 AM
Posted on February 5, 2004 05:28
Hm, the smilies don't show up in Mozilla, at least the antiquated version I'm using in Mac OS 9. I'll have to check and see if it's showing the same symptoms with Version 1.6 in Mac OS X.
Posted by Koganuts | February 5, 2004 8:18 AM
Posted on February 5, 2004 08:18
Koga, did you not read my entry? :lol Lemme quote it for you:
Unfortunately for some reason this feature doesn't seem to work in Safari or Firebird, but I suspect it's some kind of Javascript setting or something that I'm not gonna investigate right now.
Movable Type has this same problem with the bold, italics, underline and URL features when you make an entry, in that those features don't show up in Safari and Firebird (and probably other browsers as well). I'll look into it some more today and see if I can find an answer.
Posted by Yams | February 5, 2004 9:39 AM
Posted on February 5, 2004 09:39
KUFFS KUFFS KUFFS KUFFS... :lol
Posted by elvispanda | February 5, 2004 9:58 AM
Posted on February 5, 2004 09:58
Ok, as I suspected, this is a known problem with MT using some IE-only Javascript (IE for the PC, that is); and supposedly they are going to fix it with MT 3.0. There is a hack for it, but only so it will work on Firebird, there isn't a hack for Safari, but I'll put the Firebird hack in tonight when I get home. Anyway, for anyone really interested in reading about this bug, here's some links: link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4
Posted by Yams | February 5, 2004 10:04 AM
Posted on February 5, 2004 10:04
:thumbsup I love this new feature, this way I don't have to bug you every time I make a new entry :roll
And no, this wasn't one of your more tedios and boring entry... I can think of plenty more tedious and boring than this :lol :wink
Posted by iendive | February 5, 2004 10:06 AM
Posted on February 5, 2004 10:06
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we are the world! we are the children! it's time to make a better day, so let's start giving!
(look, it's darryl hall!)
Posted by fhqwhgads | February 5, 2004 1:37 PM
Posted on February 5, 2004 13:37
If I could only buy the world a Coke.
Posted by Ponnerbell | February 5, 2004 5:39 PM
Posted on February 5, 2004 17:39
Damnit! Never mind I guess. I would need to know a hell of a lot more about Javascript to fix the smilies so they'll work in Firebird (either that or I'd need far, far more patience than I have and would spend a while teaching myself through a lot of trial and error). Anyway, suffice it to say that it's a lot of work if I want to fix it, and considering the next version of Movable Type might fix it anyway, I'm just gonna wait instead. :sad
Posted by Yams | February 5, 2004 8:20 PM
Posted on February 5, 2004 20:20
...quitter! :nono
Posted by iendive | February 6, 2004 2:25 PM
Posted on February 6, 2004 14:25