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In the latest tech note that will inevitably become an open thread, still more outdated code has been trimmed, modernized, and tightened up in the LGF Blog Engine templates. The comment entry form that registered users see is now table-free, using floated elements to create a table-like look for the ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, Comments, Optimization, CSS
If you’re using Internet Explorer version 6, you may have noticed the left sidebar seemingly disappearing. It wasn’t really disappearing, it was being pushed down to the bottom of the page when the “Top Rated Links” area opened up. The reason: without getting too technical, Internet Explorer is simply the ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, CSS, HTML, Web Design, Internet Explorer, IE6
If you were having trouble seeing all the comments in longer threads with Firefox 3, reload the page and this should now be fixed. Apparently the Windows version of Firefox has a serious bug with its implementation of the CSS “overflow” property, which we added to a certain page element ...
The latest change behind the scenes is huge, but hopefully you won’t even notice. Ever since LGF began, back in the Paleostinky Era, our main template has been based around a simple HTML table with three columns. No nested tables (gasp!) or anything like that, but in the world of ...
To make it more obvious which “pseudo-links” will cause some hidden content to slide into view, they’re now styled in green, with little “flippy triangles” to show that clicking them will display their associated content. Also, the “LGF Headlines,” “Recent Comments,” and “Top 10 Comments” all use a similar collapsible ...
After bogging down quite a bit today with a flood of traffic, I’m trying a new technique (new for LGF anyway) to cut the size of the files that have to be downloaded in order to display our pages, and improve the page loading speed for all our visitors. Last ...
LGF, Technical Info, Javascript, CSS, gzip, Apache, mod_gzip
UPDATE at 11/4/07 2:05:42 pm: This is what I’m reading in the bathroom, but please note: the picture was not taken in my bathroom. I do not keep a laptop computer in my bathroom.
LGF, Photograph, Technical, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, CSS
Here’s an open thread for Thursday afternoon as I toil away at the semi-antiquated CSS/HTML code that displays our content pages. If you reload and the page looks all whacked out, it’s because I’m trying something that didn’t quite work out; wait a few seconds and load it again. ...
Here’s a Friday afternoon open thread, as I try out some new looks for a few of our page elements. Reload the page to refresh the CSS if you want to see it and tell me how gawdawful ugly it is...
Over the weekend, I made a significant change in the way fonts are displayed at LGF, in order to allow Internet Explorer users to easily resize our text to their own preferences. If things look different around here, that’s why. Here are the posts with more info about the change, ...
So far I’ve gotten only positive comments about LGF’s new font sizing method. A change this fundamental, however, has lots of ramifications for a site this large, and there may still be some rough spots. So here’s another thread for you to let me know if anything doesn’t look the ...
The latest revision to the LGF blog code addresses a recurring issue that I hear about in email quite frequently, in which users of Internet Explorer for Windows are unable to resize our text. Other browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Safari) don’t have this problem. It’s caused by a weird bug/quirk of ...
We have yet another improvement to the LGF Blog Engine. At the bottom of every comments page, right above the posting form, there’s now a special link that says “Show all links.” Click this little rascal and you’ll see an extracted list of all the links in the comments—a quick ...
LGF, Technical Info, CSS, PHP, LGF Blog Engine, Link Extraction, URLs
Quite a few bloggers indicated interest in my idea for a bit of code they can paste into a blog template, that will show the last 10 or so LGF headlines as links to those pages at our site. So without further ado, here’s the first release of LGF Headlines. ...
I’m considering a new feature, and if you’re a blogger I’m curious to know if you’d use it. The idea is to create a simple bit of code you can copy and paste into your blog template, that will display the last 5 or 10 LGF headlines, as links to ...
Yes, another one. I’ve been on a programming binge, taking a lot of my pre-existing procedural PHP and slowly, carefully transmuting it to nice shiny object oriented code. The latest section of the LGF Blog codebase to come under the microscope is the RSS feed reader, especially on the LGF ...
LGF, Technical Info, CSS, PHP, HTML, PEAR, Google, Search, SOAP, RSS, XML
The latest improvement to the LGF Blog system is a better way to use Google’s search mechanism. (Yes, it’s Google, and I know they do some things we don’t like—such as including jihad sites as legitimate news sources at Google News—but the bottom line, after much research and investigation of ...
LGF, Technical Info, CSS, PHP, HTML, PEAR, Google, Search, SOAP
Behind the scenes, a lot is changing. I’ve converted all our code that emails people for any reason (registrations, emailing articles to friends, contact form, etc.) to use an authenticated SMTP account with a very nice PHP mailer class, instead of the ‘sendmail’ based system we used to have. What ...
The comment posting code has been greatly improved, with a new URL autolinking routine that works much more reliably than the dated, buggy one we’ve been using for at least three years. It also produces prettier links than the previous autolinker; the title for the link is set to the ...
Progress continues on the LGF back-end renovation project. The HTML code sanitization routines are working really well, producing pages that get much closer to the holy grail of user comment validation. I’ve also made improvements in an important part of the LGF comment posting script: the code that automatically replaces ...
Most readers probably don’t realize that Little Green Footballs is semi-unique in the blogosphere, because the whole site runs on a custom-designed PHP platform, instead of one of the various open source or commercial blog packages. It’s a flat-file based system, which makes it very fast, and it has many ...