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I’ve been doing a lot of work on the LGF Blog code behind the scenes, so as always, if a feature doesn’t seem to be working correctly, the first thing to try is reloading the page. Bugs get fixed quickly, so reloading will often make all your problems disappear. Well, ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Spinoff Links, Ajax, jQuery, Javascript
Another new Ajax feature: the top level category for each LGF article (which appears on the second line of the title, to the left of the date and time of publication) is now an Ajax popup link, showing the most recent 5 articles in that category. As with the Ajax ...
Those little tags you see at the bottom of each LGF article are now Ajax-infused. When you hover your little mousie over a tag, up pops a list of links to the last five LGF articles with that tag. The code uses jQuery with the tooltip extension Levitip (with a ...
A new feature of the LGF Blog: a little checkbox underneath the comments area, labeled “Auto.” When checked, this option will automagically load and display any new comments in a thread, at 10 second intervals. (If you’re registered and logged in to your account, that is.) When you’re typing a ...
You know that article mailer page we’ve had for years, that you get to by clicking the little gray ‘@’ button in the row of buttons below each article? It’s finally had a revamp, and now uses Ajax to get the information needed to send an HTML email containing a ...
Our individual comment pages now include all the tools that are visible on the full comment threads, including ratings, favorites, and reporting. You get to one of these individual comment pages by clicking the number of a comment (at top left of each comment). It’s a way for you to ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Ajax, Javascript, Ratings, Favorites
I had to take down the front page live comment updates for a couple of days to figure out why MySQL was deadlocking. We all know how painful that can be. Turns out that MyISAM tables suffer from an obscure problem related to concurrent reads and writes, that’s exacerbated when ...
We have a new feature on the LGF front page: if you’re registered and logged in, the last comment information that shows at the bottom right of each article is now live. Every 15 seconds an Ajax routine checks the last comment for each article on the front page, and ...
A new addition to the site, although you wouldn’t know it unless you look at the source code: Mint, a nicely-designed site statistics package with a slick Ajax interface by Shaun Inman. Quickie review: very simple to install, and started working flawlessly right away with almost no perceptible impact on ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, Mint, Statistics, Ajax
In our left sidebar you will now discover a widget titled “Top 10 Comments.” When you click it, you’ll see the top-rated comments posted by LGF lizards during the last 24 hours. The list of top comments is produced with an Ajax call, so it updates each time it’s displayed. ...
As we continue to Ajaxify the LGF Blog Engine, the latest new feature is the user profile display, which appears when you click on a commenter’s personal icon. (Or if they haven’t uploaded a personal icon, the tiny green football.) Instead of opening a new window with the profile data, ...
LGF, Ajax, Javascript, Tech Note, jQuery, dialog box, Comments, profiles
It’s the return of the son of the dreaded midday open thread... New feature in your “My Favorites” page: you can specify a list of tags as a filter. Right now it works as an “OR” filter; if any of the tags match, the favorite shows up in the ...
Lots of work behind the scenes today on the tag auto-completion feature in your “My Favorites” page. With some more Ajax goodies installed, working with tags is much more responsive. * If you add a new tag, or delete an existing tag completely from all your favorites, you’ll now see ...
Another cool enhancement to the Favorites feature tonight: when entering tags for an item, you’ll now see a list of ‘auto-complete’ suggestions, pulled from your current tags. You can select a suggestion either by hitting Return (which picks the first suggestion if there’s more than one) or by clicking the ...
Saturday morning is almost a memory, and here’s an open thread... I’ll be digging around and refining the “Favorites” code today, so if by any chance an LGF feature doesn’t seem to be working right for you, refresh the page completely. Some browsers like to hang on to their cache ...
The LGF enhancement du jour: a very helpful tool for organizing your saved favorites, a tool that we will call “tags.” Because everyone else does. In your My Favorites page, each saved favorite can now have its own series of tags (or keywords). Click the “Tags” link at lower right ...
Since the original announcement has scrolled down the page I’m beginning to get emails from people asking, “Hey, what’s with all those little red hearts?” (You need to be registered and logged in to see them.) That’s our new Favorites feature, that saves links to any front page entry, spinoff ...
An open thread just to test the new Favorites feature, before formally announcing... UPDATE at 3/20/08 9:18:55 pm: It’s alive! Here’s the idea: next to each front page entry, spinoff link, and comment, you’ll now see a little red heart if you’re logged in. Click that red heart and it ...
I’m coding away like mad after reviewing usability and security for the new “Favorites” feature, soon to be unveiled. If you’re a registered lizard, this feature will let you easily add any LGF entry, link (from ‘top links’ or ‘spinoff links’), or comment to a personalized list of favorites that ...
Today we have two enhancements to the spinoff links and top links: * Your user icon (or tiny football, if you haven’t uploaded an icon) is now a link to your profile page. * The time and date of the link are now shown in a “relative” format, for example, ...
Wee-oo wee-oo! Page reload alert! Wee-oo wee-oo! Yes, it’s time to reload the page again, as we install the fix for another annoying bug in our Ajax comments. To be completely sure you’re up to date, you may also want to clear your browser cache before hitting the refresh button. ...
LGF, Technical Info, Javascript, Ajax, jQuery, Comments, Metadata
If you’ve been plagued with a message about an “unresponsive script” when you load LGF, I’m happy to report that the problem is fixed. Non-techies may now proceed to the open thread ... For the techlizards amongst us, here’s the explanation, because it may help someone diagnose a similar problem. ...
LGF, Technical Info, Javascript, Ajax, jQuery, Events, window.unload
The date range setting of the LinkViewer has been improved tonight. Now there’s only one field instead of two; when you click in the field (or click the little calendar icon) the popup calendar lets you select two dates — the “from” and “to” dates — and automatically reloads the ...
LGF, Technical Info, Javascript, Ajax, Spinoff Links, LinkViewer
In the “Top Rated Links” area, you can now set how many links you want to display, from 5 to 25, in increments of 5. This value is saved in a cookie, along with the current category, the number of days, and the state of the link area (visible or ...
LGF, Technical Info, Javascript, Ajax, Spinoff Links, jQuery
One of the issues I considered when implementing the ‘Top-Rated Links’ feature was: how far back should the feature look? A day, two days, more? After some experimentation I settled on one day as a reasonable interval. But this meant that comment threads and conversations would disappear from the listings, ...
LGF, Technical Info, Javascript, Ajax, Spinoff Links, jQuery