New stuff

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I'm experimenting with some new journal stuff. Finally added a latest-comments sidebar; after I'm sure it works, it'll migrate into Vardibian's, Dan's, and Mary Anne's journals. While I was putting that together, I realized that I wasn't very happy with the layout of the list of entries, so I decided to redo that using CSS instead of a table. I'm not entirely sure that what I ended up with is the best approach; let me know what you think.

I also removed the underlines from entry titles.

I haven't completely switched over to CSS (and I haven't removed the table formatting from the various other list-of-entries pages), but this is a start.

9 Responses to “New stuff”

  1. Vardibidian

    In case it looks different to me on WXP/IE6, at the moment 12:45EDT the New Entries are below and to the left of the Recent Comments. That is, there’s a gap above the new entries.

    Other than that, it looks great!

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  2. Nao

    looks pretty good in Safari, but there’s a space between the word comment and the plural s.

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  3. Jed

    Sadly, the new layout is unreadable in NS4/Mac. I’ll fix it later; in the mean time, use the view-entire-month option at the bottom of the page. Sorry about that.

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  4. Tim Pratt

    Looks fine in Mozilla, though you appear to have driven your listing on Journal Walker quite insane…

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  5. Scott Reilly

    Looks fine on Firefox under Unix. The formatting isn’t being picked up by Konqueror though.

    And yeah, the reformatting has thrown j-walker. I’ve just had to de-list the site until I can turn my attention to reparsing the page. Or is it still in a state of flux?

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  6. Jed

    Still in flux, sorry. But I thought j-walker was reading the RSS?

    I’ll either try and fix things soon, or return to the old way until I can get everything working right.

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  7. Scott Reilly

    I didn’t realize you had RSS going. Oh wait, I just did a search on RSS and found (and now recall) your post from Jan. announcing it. (You might want to consider mentioning the RSS feed in the <HEAD> of each page and perhaps add a visible link.) So I went ahead and added you back into j-walker, then realized why I never switched to using the RSS: no comment info.

    As it stands, I think j-walker should now at least properly obtain entry titles and posting dates. Once your site design stabilizes I can look into obtaining the comment info. (Update as I was about to post: ok, so it’s screwing up the dates. I’ll have to fix that tomororw.)

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  8. Vardibidian

    It just occurred to me that I hadn’t tested how it would work, in practice, to have a shoved-off-your-front-page comment show up in the recent comments box.

    Not that I think there will be a technical problem, I’m just curious how obvious it will be when I go back and look at your main page.

                               ,
    -Vardibidian.

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  9. Dan

    Speaking of which, it would be nifty if the comments sidebar only picked up comments from posts that had been pushed off the front page, since it’s pretty easy to see by link status (color) which posts have new comments on them on the front page. But I imagine that it would be a torment to implement, so this should in no way be considered a suggestion.

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