Geeklog issues-inline code and entities

By Oli
At 5:25 AM · Wednesday, 9 April · 2003
To Weblogging

I want to test how Geeklog handles some html tags…

pre tag

this is some pre-tagged text with a blank line before and after (not using br tags though)

pre tag inline

this is some pre text including carriage
returns in the middle of a sentence
, but don’t let that put you off

code tag

this is some code inline. At least I hope it’s inline

entities

here are some entities: & <   > ア

Results:

  • geeklog doesn’t automatically add <br> tags for blank lines in HTML-formatted stories
  • geeklog implements <code> and <pre> tags as you’d expect, including inline <code> tags! I wonder why no one mentioned this on the forums? Was it because they thought I’d be too silly not to think of this myself? ;-)
  • geeklog posts entities correctly, as long as you don’t preview. Previewing causes the entities to be translated/rendered, and if you then save they become mojibake (fuct)
This solves most of my problems with geeklog. After this it’s only multiple categories per post, better multilingual/Japanese support, and RSS2/trackback support. Now to convert the template to something more standards-friendly…

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