Link Mania
Charles Johnson
Fri Jan 4, 2008 at 6:02 pm PST • Views: 158
I’ve cleaned up and simplified the spinoff links display. If you don’t see the latest stuff, or something looks completely whack, refresh your browser; you’ve probably been sitting on one page, using our Ajax features, and haven’t reloaded in a while.
The latest stuff:
* Category divisions are represented by thicker dividing lines.
* Category names now show up in the upper right of each link’s area.
* Extraneous lines and bogus design elements have been ruthlessly excised.
* When I create a new front page post, I can now set it to automatically open the spinoff links for that post. The automatic link display feature only works for the LGF front page; I removed it from the individual entry pages, because it conflicted with the links to individual comments by pushing the page down when it expanded.
* To demonstrate the automatic links feature, it’s enabled for this post.
Non-techie readers can now tune out, because I have to give another huge thumbs-up to the jQuery JavaScript Library, which has made adding features like this much easier than writing all that gnarly low-level Javascript from scratch. Google uses it. You should too, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Frank says: