TagsTagsHere's a very handy Javascript bookmarklet I whipped up yesterday, when I realized I was often searching the LGF archives for phrases on other sites; for example, when I was writing the post about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, I wanted to search LGF for my previous ...
Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Search Engine, Bookmarklet
Here's a tech note that will, as all tech notes do, almost immediately turn into a Friday night open thread. I've gotten several complaints about the LGF front page crashing in the Opera browser, or taking forever to load if it doesn't crash. I traced the problem to a recent change in ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, Javascript, Opera, Browsers, jQuery, Fat Lady
In the never-ending search for a faster loading web page, I'm pleased to announce that more than 440K has been trimmed out of LGF's front page today, and loading that bad boy should be much snappier now. I discovered that the Google +1 buttons on the front page were loading about ...
Tech Note, Javascript, Google +1, Opera, Asynchronous, LGF Blog Engine
Here’s an open thread for anything at all on a Friday night, with a note to let all LGF Pages authors know that there’s been a change to the LGF Pages bookmarklet to fix a small problem, so you should delete your current bookmarklet and reinstall the new one. The new ...
We're tweaking the poll creation feature of our LGF Pages app, and the latest addition is an expiration date. When someone loads a Page with a poll that's past the date, they'll see a message saying the poll is "closed," and won't be able to vote. (The results will still ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Polls, Ajax, Javascript, LGF Blog Engine
Tonight we're announcing a cool new feature for LGF Pages -- each LGF Page can now contain an Ajax-based poll, just like the ones you've seen on LGF front page articles. The interface is very simple. A poll consists of a "topic," and two or more "options." You can think of ...
LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Ajax, Polls, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs
Today we're unveiling a brand new tagging system for your LGF Pages, making it much easier to create new tags and reuse previously created tags with a personalized autocompletion feature. The LGF Pages posting bookmarklet now uses your personal "tag library" (all the tags you've ever used for your Pages) to ...
LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Tech Note, Tags, Javascript, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs
If you're a PHP coder who also codes Javascript, here's an insanely useful site where they've converted most of the useful PHP functions into Javascript, keeping the syntax intact: PHP functions in JavaScript. I'm currently using their versions of base64_decode(), utf8_decode(), addslashes(), and str_replace() in the LGF Javascript codebase, and they ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, PHP, Javascript
I'm glad to announce that the Internet Explorer 7 bug I described yesterday has been worked around, and IE7 no longer crashes when loading LGF. LGF reader "samgak" deserves the hat tip for finding the solution: IE7 has a serious bug in its CSS parser, that strikes when you use a ...
Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript, Internet Explorer, IE7
jQuery 1.6 has been released, and after testing, it's now installed at LGF. Here's a thread to report any problems or anomalies. I've tested so far in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox in Mac OS, and Internet Explorer 8 in Windows, with no problems. There is a problem several people have reported with ...
Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript, Internet Explorer, IE7
If you're going to build a paywall around your web content, you really should try a little harder than this.
New York Times, Paywall, Subscriptions, Blogosphere, Javascript, Security
Tonight I'm pleased to announce that I've reinstalled jQuery 1.5, the latest version of the world's best Javascript framework. I did some debugging and discovered that the problem I experienced earlier this week was caused by a jQuery plugin I was using to fix the transparency in PNG images, for ...
Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript
Woo hoo! jQuery 1.5 is out! The world's best Javascript framework just got better, with big performance boosts in some of the core jQuery functions used to traverse the Document Object Model. And you gotta love that, if you're a Javascript nerd. As I am. I've installed the new version, so here's ...
Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve integrated Twitter's new official “Tweet Button” into the LGF Blog code to see how it compares to our previous Tweet button/retweet count feature, which calls the API at bit.ly to get the count statistics. But I ran into a problem with the Twitter code: it’s intended ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Statistics, Twitter, Tweet Button, Javascript, jQuery
Here we have your traditional Sunday evening open thread, with a Tech Note added, all sneaky-like. Today I added live pageview counters to all the front page articles, in the article byline following the category and date. If you watch the "Views" number under the article's title, you'll see it increase ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Statistics, Ajax, Javascript
Following up on yesterday’s post about our shocking (albeit unintentional) abuse of the bit.ly API, I emailed my contact at bit.ly and let him know about the changes in the LGF Blog code, and got this reply: Thanks! The number of /shorten requests from your account has fallen dramatically. You’re ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Retweet, John Resig, jQuery, Programming, Ajax, Twitter
Here’s an email I recently received from the URL-shortening service bit.ly, a popular Twitter-related service that I use to automatically shorten URLs for LGF-related tweets. The nice thing about bit.ly (and j.mp, it’s the same service) is that it doesn’t just shorten URLs; if you register an account, it also ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Retweet, John Resig, jQuery, Programming, Ajax, Twitter
The new version of the best Javascript library on the web is now available: jQuery 1.4. Resig and his posse are claiming significant performance improvements. After testing with the plugins used by LGF I’m going live with the new version. The only problem I encountered was with BlockUI, which the LGF Blog ...
We have a new feature in our commenting system, requested by several people. If you click the ‘Reply’ or ‘Quote’ buttons on the top line of a comment to post a reply to someone’s comment, you’ll see a new checkbox appear at the top left of the comment posting box, ...
Our latest addition to The Blog codebase is a button to let you “retweet” an LGF article. “Retweeting” is a common way for people to spread interesting content around on Twitter. Since each article is already automatically posted to Twitter, your tweet is prefaced with the standard Twitter syntax to ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, Javascript, jQuery, John Resig, Retweet
Stop the presses! New feature alert! OK, maybe you don’t need to actually stop any presses, but we have a new feature in the LGF Comment Engine: embedded MP3 files. It works just like the embedded video feature: you put the URL of an MP3 file on its own line in ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Audio, Javascript, Media, jQuery
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
Registered users have been able to embed video clips in their LGF comments for several months; today I added a new format to the list of embeddable video types: Vimeo.com. To embed a Vimeo clip in a comment, go to the page at the Vimeo website that has the video, and ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Video, Javascript, Media, jQuery
Apple’s recently-released Safari 4 web browser features a major update to its developers’ tools, and if you have anything to do with designing websites you’ll find some of these new abilities very handy. You can inspect the HTML structure of the page and alter CSS properties on the fly, profile ...
Apple, mac os x, Software, Safari, Web Browser, Javascript, Debugger, Developers
Here’s our Monday evening Lizard Lounge thread; if you’re registered and logged in, click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy for this article in “Lounge Mode” — this is the private “chat room” area for the thread, ...
Tech Note, Javascript, jQuery, LGF Spy, Comments, Lizard Lounge, Chat