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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 ...
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, ...
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
A Sunday afternoon before the weekday crowds seems like a good time to do one more acid test of the new Ajax-based Lizard Lounge. 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 ...
More tweaks and improvements to the private Ajax chat room feature, so here’s another private thread to give it the acid test. 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 ...
Yes, it’s another test thread for the private Ajax chat room feature, as we continue tightening up the code. 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 private ...
Comments, LGF Spy, jQuery, Javascript, Tech Note, Technology
We’ve been doing some more tweaking of the LGF Spy, so here’s another test thread for the private Ajax chat room feature. 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 ...
Comments, LGF Spy, jQuery, Javascript, Tech Note, Technology
Here’s another test of the private chat room feature. 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 private mode. There may still be some glitches; hopefully this test ...
Comments, LGF Spy, jQuery, Javascript, Tech Note, Technology
Improvements in the LGF Spy: %%LIST=The comment numbers are back, the comment numbers are back! Comments now show the date and time of posting. A navigation panel lets you move to next or previous threads in the Spy. When a new article goes up, the navigation panel is automagically updated.%% ...
Here’s an open tech thread — I’ve been testing the LGF Spy with my iPhone and it turns out to work really well for posting comments. In a regular comment thread, when the HTML page gets very large the iPhone’s Safari browser bogs down, and even crashes; makes it not ...
Tech Note, Javascript, jQuery, LGF Spy, Comments, iPhone, Mobile Phones
This is an open thread to test a new feature, making comments visible only to registered lizards. I can enable the “privacy” feature for individual threads; in most threads I’ll leave it off so everyone can read the comments, registered or not. But by using the LGF Spy for a ...
Comments, LGF Spy, jQuery, Javascript, Tech Note, Technology
Here’s how it works — you click the little green magnifying glass at the bottom right of an article (in the line of icons that includes Email, Print, and Favorites). This brings you to the LGF Spy page for that individual thread. Note! Clicking the LGF Spy link in the ...
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 ...
It’s back to jQuery 1.2.6 again; the new version needs just a bit more tweaking and tuning and bug eradication to be all it can be. We discovered a couple of spots in our code where version 1.3.1 was executing some DOM lookups much more slowly than the older version, ...
We’re giving the bug-fix release of jQuery (v1.3.1) a try, to see how it behaves in the LGF jungle. With the first 1.3 release, as noted earlier, we received complaints from more than a few readers of various sorts of problems. We’ve tested this version in Internet Explorer 6 and ...
We’ve had too many reports of problems with AOL browsers, Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox versions earlier than 3, etc., so we’ve reached the reluctant conclusion that we must revert back to jQuery 1.2.6. We haven’t been able to duplicate most of the reported problems, but our development systems are ...
Gifts for geeks! A major update for the indispensable Javascript library jQuery has been released into the wild: jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation. They’re claiming some big speed improvements and other nice enhancements; full details are in the release notes. And they’ve also unveiled a great Ajax-based API browser, ...
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 ...
Building on our new embedded YouTube video feature, you can now include Google and Liveleak videos in a comment as well. The procedure is similar to the method you use to embed YouTube videos: 1) Browse to the page at YouTube, Google or Liveleak that contains the video. At Google ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Video, Javascript, Media, jQuery