TagsTagsOur new feature of the day has to do with comments; when you post a comment, your username is shown on the top line. This is how it's been at LGF for lo, these many years. But now, you can actually change the name that shows up in your comment, by ...
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Here'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
This isn't a huge change, but I know that unless I explain what's up, some people will have questions so ... here's the deal. I've decided to eliminate the "alternate" method of posting LGF Pages -- clicking the "Show top rated Pages" link at the top, then clicking "submit a link." Clicking ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Bookmarklet, Twitter
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 ...
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Here's a Friday night open registration thread, with some reasons you might want to consider registering a free account at LGF: [Item List]
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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 ...
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In the 10 years we've been online, the single feature most requested by LGF users has been the ability to edit comments after they're posted, to fix typos, bad HTML tags, etc. Sure, we have a nice Ajax-based preview function that lets you see exactly how your comment will look ...
The bookmarklet that lets registered LGF users post LGF Pages has been updated, to provide better support for automatically grabbing selected text from a web page in Internet Explorer. Here's the new version of the bookmarklet: LGF Pages Bookmarklet To install this in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, you can just drag the link ...
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I can see from our registered user database that quite a few LGF readers have connected their LGF accounts to their Twitter accounts, allowing them to use our Twitter app "LGF Connect" to retweet links to our articles. (And note: you can give LGF Connect a try even without being a ...
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I'm posting this open thread as an LGF Page, to use it as the first test of the new "promotion" feature that will basically turn LGF into a group blog, by "promoting" LGF Pages. This new feature lets me convert LGF Pages that are especially noteworthy into front page articles, ...
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
As I was working with the code for our new LGF Connect feature that lets you post to Twitter with Ajax, I realized there was no reason to limit its usage to people with LGF accounts. Instead, I could do the standard Twitter authorization dance (basically the same code you ...
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Now that we have the infrastructure for the linking of LGF accounts to Twitter accounts, we have another new feature to announce: our retweet buttons (at the top right of each post) now use the LGF Connect app to post your tweet directly on Twitter, using Ajax instead of pop-up ...
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We have a brand new feature tonight in LGF Pages, something I mentioned as "coming soon" in the previous Tech Note: auto-posting to Twitter, by linking your LGF account to your Twitter account. Background: one of the groovy things you can do with Twitter is to give third party "apps" access ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
There are some new features in LGF Pages, our simple but powerful blogging system for registered users: 1) Pages now have all the same sharing tools as LGF front page articles; a Facebook Like button, a Google +1 button, a retweet button for Twitter, and a "Share" button that pops up ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, Facebook, Google
Here's one of those tech notes that usually turns into an open thread, with some information that might be useful to other website monkeys. While testing the Facebook Like button I noticed that there seems to be a latency problem somewhere in the mammoth Facebook hivemind. If the button is ...
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Here's a Tuesday night open thread, coinciding with a Tuesday night open registration (for a limited time). Benefits of registering at LGF include: [Item List] Here's the link to register an account. UPDATE at 6/28/11 8:19:21 pm And the window of opportunity swings shut for the evening.
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You may have noticed those two shiny new buttons at the top of the right sidebar. The Twitter button leads to my Twitter profile, of course, but I'm also now on Facebook, only several years after the rest of the world. With this post I'm testing the Facebook app I coded ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Facebook, Social Media
Announcing a new feature for registered users: if you have a Twitter account, you can now save your Twitter username in your LGF Account Settings page (it's near the bottom of the page). Once you enter the Twitter name and save settings, a link will appear in your LGF user profile ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, Social Media, LGF Pages
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
The tech note for today is a new feature in the comment posting form: there's now a button labeled "Upload Image." It opens a popup window in which you can upload an image file from your computer to LGF, using the standard HTML two-step file uploading form. You then get ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Images, Uploading
I've been traveling today so I'm getting to this a bit late -- but I'm proud to announce that today Little Green Footballs logged our nine millionth comment! Comment #9M was posted this afternoon by "darthstar," and it consisted of a single pithy yet enigmatic expression: booger Almost Zen in its ...
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