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Yes, that image replacement and CSS rollover effect has now been applied to the row of icons at upper right of each comment. You must now reload the page to install the proper Javascript and CSS files.
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Icons, Image Replacement, CSS, HTML, Accessibility
The image replacement technique about which we pontificated at length yesterday has now been applied to the entry rating buttons (not the comment ratings... yet). If you still haven’t fully recovered from the annual festivities and have no idea what we’re talking about, these are the rating buttons that are ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Icons, Image Replacement, CSS, HTML, Accessibility
We’re improving the infrastructure around here again. One visible change is the disappearance of the little blue word balloon icon (), that showed up next to the number of comments at the bottom right of each front page article; it was redundant, because clicking the number of comments went to ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Icons, Image Replacement, CSS, HTML, Accessibility
We discovered a bug in our Ajax commenting system this morning, and the fix involved changing several important files. And you know what that means: time to reload the page.
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, Comments
In the latest tech note that will inevitably become an open thread, still more outdated code has been trimmed, modernized, and tightened up in the LGF Blog Engine templates.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
Behind the scenes, the LGF Blog Engine code is being radically reworked, especially in pages with comments. By optimizing the HTML/Javascript/CSS design, we’ve managed to reduce the size (defined as the amount of HTML code it takes to render the comment in your browser) of each individual comment by about ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, Comments, Optimization
It’s time to reload the page, as we’ve made structural changes to the HTML and Javascript code to make comments pages significantly smaller and less complex, which should help keep the hamsters from going totally insane.
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, Comments
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 ...
The LGF feature that lets you email a copy of one of our posts to a friend has been the latest target of the extreme lizard makeover project. It will now send a nicely formatted HTML email, with a plain text version included for non-HTML email clients or people who ...
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 ...