Nov 6, 2002
As Vic pointed out, my page ceased to be XHTML-compliant when I moved posts inside categories. Bloxsom generates an ID to use inside the name attribute of an tag in order to facilitate linking to individual posts. This is great except for posts in sub-categories, whose IDs are prepended with the path to that … Read more
Nov 5, 2002
I knew that XML is case sensitive, but that didn’t stop me and my filthy assistant from agonizing for days as to why an XML request to a client’s server wasn’t being honoured. Actually, I only agonized over it for part of yesterday and some of today after I wrenched … Read more
Aug 8, 2002
If an RSS feed to which you are subscribed decides to put an HTML form element (eg. SELECT, INPUT, etc.) in an item, the Radio news aggregator will fail badly when you try to delete items:
[Macro error: Can’t coerce the string “nameprfx” into a number because it contains non-numeric characters.]
I learnt this when … Read more
Aug 7, 2002
Why is it that when I delete a few items in Radio’s news aggregator, a bunch of previously-deleted items suddenly appear and I have to spend a few minutes cleaning them out? What Radio needs is a ‘Check All’ option or something like that so I can uncheck the items I’m interested in reading later. … Read more
Aug 6, 2002
While high-speed wireless access in Toronto might not be so great now (Clark Hornbell claims that we’re leaps and bounds ahead of Vancouver, however.) it seems like it could quickly get better. The rumours … Read more