28 November 2005
Magic Del.icio.us JSON feeds
by ecmanaut
<i>Comment threading is something the blogosphere should eventually catch onto, but almost no one does that yet. While lack of comment RSS is a pain, you'll note that I </i>do<i> have one for my site via mailbucket and a nice forwarding system on Gmail.</
27 November 2005
Browservulsel: Custom Blogger comments form (4): spam protection
by ecmanaut
Might I suggest some smallish but useful-per-work-involved upgrades to this? (I'm actually mostly interested in the changes applied to your blog, but it would most likely be useful to the wider public adopiting your code too.)<br><br>1: Make the datestamp
Browservulsel: Form data rescue user script
by ecmanaut
It's unfortunate that this won't protect against the event of a browser crash, which is what I typically lose form content from. At least I assume it would not; the Greasemonkey config.xml is only committed to disk at successful closedown of the browser,
Category Integration Between Sites - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
Feedback on this would have become a bit unwieldy in a pop-up form at Freshblog; I took the liberty of going for a complete <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/magic-delicious-json-feeds.html" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> instead.
Marc has cracked the Sidebar Menu!!! - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
You definitely should, Greg; you're an excellent designer and technical writer, beside your other skills, and it would help communication a lot. :-)<br><br>I'm trying to sum up this thread in a big blog post, to get some overview on it and much for reason
26 November 2005
Striking results
by ecmanaut
I prefer shopping for hearts and brains in the deeper text trenches of the net, myself. In that respect, I'm hardly representative for neither males nor Swedes though, I'm told. :-)
Category Integration Between Sites - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
Regarding AJAX, I've been pondering a hack that pulls in posts from your own blog into something like a post archive, but it has the drawback on being rather reliant on your post template to work well. (Since you have to load, parse and splice the content
Category Integration Between Sites - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
You're very welcome, Greg; I'm much in favour of all of my improvements / tweaks going back into your mainline code, should you want them there.<br><br>I would only add support for picking up tags from "known" referrer tag schemes (scraping relevant bits
Browservulsel: Using CSS to display accesskeys
by ecmanaut
Nifty; thanks for passing on the tip; I didn't know about attr(), either.
25 November 2005
Ajaxian: Getters and Setters in JavaScript
by ecmanaut
This may come out a bit harsh, due in part to the late hour. I always find it a bit unfortunate when influential blogs mention powerful concepts like these, though, without a context of when or how they can be put to good use, rather than making code hard
24 November 2005
Blogger publish ping and categorizer tool
by ecmanaut
Interesting. A screenshot might be helpful, but I might get by on less; for instance, does your blog use the post title feature, or have you turned off the Title field? (The interception code adding the Tags field might need some revision to handle that;
23 November 2005
Browservulsel: Blogger backlinks the custom way
by ecmanaut
How simple and robust it became if one didn't bother with the custom foldable bits Blogger offer for folding and unfolding the backlinks, which I took to doing of my own with what little Blogger offers in scripted provisions for that. I really ought to st
Category Integration Between Sites - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
Love your work, Greg, and thanks for the beautiful tutorial; it's a very comfy way into the match indeed. One feature request: <a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/%7Ejhs/blog/ecmanaut/2005-11-23/fetch_query_tag.txt" rel="nofollow">add an unescape() of the
Blogger Del.icio.us categorizer script
by ecmanaut
It's all CSS; these are the lines from my stylesheet which cover the tags section -- the ones you are particulatly looking for here are the display:inline; attributes:<br><br><tt>div.tags { margin:1em 0; }<br>div.tags ul { display:inline; margin-left:0;
Blogger backlinks on main and archive pages too
by ecmanaut
I wrote up a long-sought-after post on <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-previous-and-next-links.html">how to set up previous and next date links in Blogger</a> now. (Previous and next <i>post</i> is, unfortunately, a lot harder, and s
22 November 2005
Navbar Hack Request - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
Which method do you use yourself [to pick a better description snippet for i e what shows up in Google searches]?
21 November 2005
Automate double password confirmation typing by means of Greasemonkey
by ecmanaut
I actually think it's both simpler, more robust and elegant to propagate the same event we got to the other form field -- that way, we don't have to figure out what the received keypress was supposed to <i>do</i> with the field, and emulate the same behav
More New Stuff on Blogger Hacks - The Series - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
The second link doesn't work any more; you might want to change it to the <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/10/blogger-hack-inline-comment-faces.html" rel="nofollow">permalink for the article</a>.
20 November 2005
Philosophy, et cetera: Better Browsing (and Blogging)
by ecmanaut
ClustrMaps <i>is</i> fun. :-) Here is <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/clustrmaps-inkblotch-visitor.html">my take</a> on how to do it.
Browservulsel: Blogger edit comments user script
by ecmanaut
Based on the idea of adding a column to the Blogger editor, I wrote a similar script to show the backlink counts for all your blog entries. It's available at http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/2185 and links back to the blog entries with the #links f
19 November 2005
Fixing Blogger's post editor's keybindings
by ecmanaut
Interesting; I never actually tried them. :-) That might mean... ...yes. It's dead simple fixing it. Using this scriptlet, for instance: <b>javascript:Textbar.Bold=function(){ this.wrapSelection('<b>','</b>'); };Textbar.Italic=function(){ this
Blogger publish ping and categorizer tool
by ecmanaut
Thanks; ping-o-matic added too, along with some other <a href="http://some-assembly-required.blogspot.com/2005/11/fixing-bloggers-post-editors.html" rel="nofollow">minor features</a> I have been missing for a while.<br><br>All pingers are good; this is ab
Google Print in Book Burro 0.17, and future library plans
by ecmanaut
Outbound links from these sites would be more interesting than inbound, I believe; both of these seem to be more aggregator sites than stores in their own right. I am still undecided about how to handle such sites in Book Burro; what information would you
18 November 2005
Panoramio » Blog Archive » Direct Manipulation
by ecmanaut
Usable design is also about visually (and indeed texturally, audiably et cetera, as applies) communicating how each interaction device is used; in which manner you interact with it. I'm not sure how a blob on a map would tell you it's draggable, but it ou
