dlI’ve found an unusual bug in how MT handles white space with block level HTML when “Convert Line Breaks” is active. It’s great for ul and ol, but does some strange stuff to dl.
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Why cruft doesn’t matter
Gregory Narain recently wrote about why he thinks non-crufty URLs are overrated. He was kind enough to use an article of mine as a source, so I felt compelled to write a reply. While I agree with some of what he says, I don’t agree (and can’t understand) his conclusion.
I think this kind of over-analysis marks me as a perfect candidate for some kind of ‘semantic wonk/geek’ committee position. sigh :-/
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I’ve made several small changes here recently, including automatic acronym tagging, fixing issues when using HTML in comments, and sending XML to compliant browsers.
From here on in I have several improvements in the works, including a redesign (the sooner the better!). I don’t even think I can call it a redesign actually — a design perhaps? ;-) This year I hope to post more frequently, write more about Japan and living here, and make this a more visually interesting weblog. Here we go!
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This is a guide to how to make the perfect URL; ones that are informative, short, and don’t change. It provides information and links on why you’d want to do this, and how to do it for Movable Type and for websites in general.
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mod_rewrite, tutorialsSome links for further reading on a security weakness in MT (allowing spammers to use MT as an open relay), trapping bad robots and spammers (especially relevant for MT users), a good introduction to mod_rewrite, and tutorials on regular expressions and command line text editors.
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cron and cgi to back up log filesScript kiddie alert! I try to fudge my way through appending my daily log files to another file that my ISP won’t delete. For anyone even more ignorant about cron and cgi than me, if that’s possible ;-)
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This site looked terrible in Mozilla 1.4/PC, and I’ve finally figured out why — Mozilla thought it was Japanese, and was applying one line of CSS only meant for inline use to every element. The weird thing is the only place ja appears on almost all pages is that one line of CSS. Is this a bug?
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The ReUSE:IT competition to redesign Jakob Neilsen’s UseIt.com website is over. Here are the designs that I liked the best.
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This is a reference for me so I don’t forget how to code for Boblet. It’s just my notes on tag attributes and styles to tie in with my stylesheets. This is of no interest (unless you are interested in the how’s and why’s of my code).
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I recently read an email in the Japan Bloggers list, and my reply became too long to email. So here it is; Why should anyone use ‘Web Standards’ or validators when making web pages?
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I’m having problems with Brad Choate’s most excellent MT:KeyValues plugin, and despite the high likelihood of user error I can only think it might be a bug. Inconceivable! Help would be greatly appreciated in pointing out the user error ;-)
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My latest small polishings to this weblog have involved adding Metatags (what an ordeal!), changing the formatting of long posts (like this one) in indexes, and a start on reworking comments. Oh yes, the excitement never ceases round here!
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