TagsTagsHere'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
I originally started writing this Tech Note just to test our new source code formatting feature (powered by jQuery.Syntax), but it turned into more of a tech article than a note. I'll be describing a technique for making pages load faster, that should be of interest to any web developer ...
Tech Note, jQuery, Linux, shell script, CSS, Programming, Compression
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
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 ...
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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
Since adding the Search Requests feature to our Referrers page, I began to notice that a large number of our hits from Google were coming from their "Image Search" results pages. So to make things a little more interesting, I added the code to pop up the images that people ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Referrers, Search Engine, jQuery
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Improvements in the LGF Spy: [Item List] ... and probably more I’ve forgotten to list. Here’s an open thread to test it out; click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of an article.
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 ...
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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 private thread, ...
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