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 ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Display Name
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
I'm pleased to announce that Little Green Footballs is now available for Google Currents, their new app for Android or iOS devices. This is a great way to follow LGF on your smartphone or tablet. The link to LGF on Google Currents: Little Green Footballs for Android, iPhone and iPad. And here's ...
Little Green Footballs, Syndication, Google Currents, Technology, iOS, Android
Tonight I'm happy to announce a new LGF web app that I think will prove incredibly useful to our LGF Pages authors: the LGF Pages Dashboard. With the LGF Pages Dashboard, you can browse and search all the Pages you've posted, sort by the various columns, edit your Pages in a ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, LGF Pages, LGF Pages Dashboard
I'm putting the finishing touches on our new LGF Pages Dashboard app before the public unveiling, so here's an open thread for the nonce...
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
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
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 ...
The religious right is all lathered up about the Rick Perry HPV controversy. They really hate that vaccine. Gardasil. It's an evil, evil vaccine that leads young women into lives of debauchery and sexual promiscuity, not necessarily in that order, by preventing the disease that would otherwise be their just and righteous ...
Religious Right, Anti-Vaccine, Gardasil, Rick Perry, Homophobia, Hate Mail, Email, Little Green Footballs
Here's a Friday night open registration thread, with some reasons you might want to consider registering a free account at LGF: [Item List]
LGF Pages, Registration, Comments, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs
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
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 ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Bookmarklet
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 ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, API, LGF Connect
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 ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API, LGF Connect
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 ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
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 ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Facebook, Social Media, Lint, Bookmarklet
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.
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Registration
My hate mail has been really boring lately; it's been a while since I received a deranged, misspelled rant about burning in hell because I believe my granddaddy was a monkey. But this morning, someone in New York fired up AOL at about 6:49 am PDT and fired off this wonderfully ...
Little Green Footballs, Hate Mail, We Got Mail, wingnuts, Atheism, Homophobia