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Wikipedia’s editors are trying to figure out how to categorize Little Green Footballs. It’s kind of amusing to read the back and forth, as they scratch their heads in puzzlement that I actually seem to have ideas that weren’t planted in my head by the vast right wing conspiracy... ...
Wikipedia, Categories, Liberal, Conservative, Independent, Wha?
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 ...
A new addition: LGF front page articles are now categorized, with a limited set of broad categories brazenly lifted from Yahoo’s Buzz categories as described on this page. Deliberate simplicity is often the best solution, but I can easily add more categories as needed. For example, I’ve added “Open” (for ...
The link entry forms now have a character counter, to let you know how close you’re getting to the maximum description size (like our comment entry form). And the description field has been made larger, by popular request. And here we have a shiny new thread on which to try ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, Comments, Descriptions
Links! Red hot! Get yer links here! There’s a new category in the link posting form: “Related to post.” Use this category when the link you’re posting is directly related to the LGF post that is its “parent.” “Related” links will show up first in the list, and their category ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, LinkViewer
The spinoff links category drop own menu is acting screwy right now for some reason, but only in Internet Exploder, which is insisting that the menu doesn’t exist. It’s fine in all other browsers, of course. I’m working on that. In the meantime, another new feature has been added to ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, LinkViewer
Here’s a sunny Saturday thread for links on any subject... Here’s a LinkViewer page for the links posted today, sorted by rating.
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, LinkViewer
More new stuff in the LinkViewer: You can now pick a date range, using popup calendars to set the start and end dates. To pick the date, click either the input field or the little calendar icon, then use the popup calendar to navigate to the date you want, and ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, LinkViewer
More enhancements to the LinkViewer tonight: * An option to sort by number of comments. * All form controls are live; you don’t have to click the “Filter” button to change categories, sort order, or links per page. * The look has been cleaned up and improved. * The description ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, LinkViewer
Here we see the spinoff links thread in its natural habitat. LGF lizards can post links by clicking “Show Spinoff Links (xx)” (at bottom right of my post), and then using the entry form at the bottom of the links region. The description is limited to 2048 characters, and only ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, LinkViewer
Now that we’re storing all of those groovy spinoff links, it’s a shame to have them all just scroll away and get lost, isn’t it? Since the top rated links area only shows a small selection of the many that are posted every day, we needed a better way to ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, LinkViewer
A new feature tonight in the top rated links: a clickable thingy that says, “descriptions.” If you click that little baby, the description for each link will magically expand right underneath the link, accordion-style. Click “descriptions” again, and the view will collapse again, hiding the descriptions. Some bugs have been ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, Comments, Descriptions
The latest enhancement to our spinoff links: if comments have been posted for a link, hovering over the comment number will cause a popup box to appear, showing the lizard name of the last commenter and an excerpt of the comment. UPDATE at 1/22/08 3:33:51 pm: And another new feature ...
Another enhancement in the “top rated links” area: you can now show the “10 Most-Commented Links” to quickly see which links are getting the most comments.
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been while all this news hasn’t been happening today, the answer can now be revealed: I’ve been putting the finishing touches on the newest addition to the LGF Blog Engine. Each spinoff link is now the proud parent of its very own thread of ...
A very irritating bug reported by several readers has bitten the dust tonight. I’m surprised more people didn’t complain about it, because it affected Internet Explorer 7 (but not 6, oddly enough!): if you showed the top rated links, the area opened correctly and slid down like it’s supposed to, ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, Internet Explorer, Javascript, jQuery
Links, links, who’s got the links? Bring out yer links, links here... Tech note: I removed that little “rounded box” extension I was trying out, after a veritable deluge of complaints (OK, 3 or 4) that it was making browsers keel over and croak.
I’ve fixed a couple of small bugs in the spinoff links feature today, and also tweaked some little interface elements: * You can only rate one link at a time. If you click the rating button for another link before the rating process is finished, nothing will happen. Previously you ...
If you’re using Internet Explorer version 6, and you’ve been having problems with our spinoff links feature, I’m glad to announce that those IE6-related problems are now mostly debugged. For the techies amongst us, the main reason for the problems was IE6’s annoying lack of support for the “selected” attribute ...
LGF, Spinoff Links, Technology, Ajax, Categories, Internet Explorer, Javascript
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 ...
Another enhancement to our spinoff links feature: categories. When you post a link, you must now select a category from the popup menu. (If you don’t see the popup menu, refresh your browser, please.) When the links are displayed, they are sorted by category and rating, so the most popular ...